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John Wiley & Sons Speaking Memory
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John Wiley & Sons Filling the Ranks Manpower in the Canadian
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking work on the management of Canadian manpower in the First World War.Trade Review"An important study [tracing] the development of the Canadian Army during the First World War, from its militia roots and enlistment criteria through to the training of reinforcements. [It] adds a great deal of knowledge to our understanding of the conflict. A career soldier in the Canadian Army, Filling the Ranks is a testament to his dedication to history and to the Canadian Forces." Canada's History
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John Wiley & Sons Before Copernicus The Cultures and Contexts of
Book SynopsisA multi-disciplinary approach to Copernicus’s momentous transformation from geocentric to heliocentric cosmology.Trade Review" Before Copernicus is of potentially great importance to the larger field of the history of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century science and the interaction between the Islamic and Western intellectual worlds. Although many books have been written about individual parts of this story no one has tried to put this all together before." Lesley Cormack, University of Alberta " These scholars are the best in their fields. Their essays are well-researched, up-to-date historiographically, and interestingly written. This volume could prove controversial, but by exposing the contested issues more clearly, it will greatly enhance th
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McGill-Queen's University Press Slow War
Book Synopsisremember your body again / how cedar smells of god / and a Bach cantata / makes you almost / forgive / your hands.Trade Review"We are occasionally lucky enough to encounter a writer we need, like Benjamin Hertwig, who offers solidarity while challenging our assumptions, who illuminates and shades our lives in surprising ways. After reading these poems I can’t imagine a world without them." John K. Samson, musician and editor, author of Lyrics and Poems, 1997–2012"In his quiet way, Benjamin Hertwig shows us the terror and wonder of being alive. Slow War is a powerful exploration of violence, longing, and the before and after of 'time and war and other old gods.' A profound and beautiful book." Deborah Campbell, winner of the 2016 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for A Disappearance in Damascus"I know of few books that deal with the experience of combat in such a humane and almost tender way. Benjamin Hertwig's Slow War is a powerful and moving work of art." John Skoyles, poetry editor of Ploughshares, author of Suddenly It’s Evening"Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder was once called "soldier’s heart." The term may not be scientifically precise, but it’s metaphorically apt. Benjamin Hertwig served in the Canadian Armed Forces in Afghanistan, and this hard-hitting debut collection is the record of a soldier’s heart, before, during and after war. The "before" poems have an elegiac sense of distance, while the combat poems have a jarring immediacy: the lines stutter and break into fragments. In "First Shot," Hertwig writes of the confusing surge of emotion when he shoots at the driver of a taxi following their convoy too closely: "you’ve never felt this way before shame euphoria, the first/time you saw a body without clothes, your order was to shoot." Poems about returning to civilian life bear poignant witness to how war has changed him: "When you returned from the war, you didn’t/think of the dead much. you wanted to be/a child again."" Toronto Star"Hertwig touches on some of our deepest national myths, only to push in, breaking the veneer of patriotism to reveal something much more potent." CV2"In this collection, Hertwig remembers, in lyrical detail, moments of violence, fear, and respite. He traces violence from the schoolyard to war, and its aftermath for the soldier. The consequences of the indiscriminate violence of war are made delicate in spite of an uneasiness with making poetry of it." Montreal Review of Books
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McGill-Queen's University Press Transforming Conversations
Book SynopsisAn accounting of feminism’s effect on Canadian education policy and practice since the Royal Commission on the Status of Women.Trade Review"Transforming Conversations is an important and timely contribution that sheds light on several hidden and undervalued perspectives and studies within the field of education in Canada. It is especially relevant given the current volatility of feminism in a global context." Cecilia Reynolds, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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John Wiley & Sons Early Modern Spectatorship Interpreting English
Book SynopsisEssays that converge on the idea of spectatorship in the theatre, in criminal punishment, in religious worship, in urban perambulation, and even where least expected.Trade Review"Early Modern Spectatorship brings together and expands the concept of spectatorship by effectively demonstrating its wide applicability. It also makes a strong case for digital humanities by showing how digital materials enhance the ability of literary scholars to make use of artifacts from material and popular culture, as well as sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century science and technology." Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler, Texas State University
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University of British Columbia Press New Perspectives on the PublicPrivate Divide
Book SynopsisPart of a series designed to explore the role of law in structuring human relationships, this collection of essays re-evaluates the public-private divide to examine how it affects the legal forms that shape our personal relationships.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Nathalie Des Rosiers1 There’s Only One Worker: Toward the Legal Integration of Paid Employment and Unpaid Caregiving / Lisa Philipps2 Private Needs and Public Space: Politics Poverty and Anti-Panhandling Bylaws in Canadian Cities / Damian Collins and Nicholas Blomley3 Private Life: Biotechnology and the Public-Private Divide / Nathan Brett4 Invasions of Publicity: Digital Networks and the Privatization of the Public Sphere / Darin Barney5 Green Revolution or Greenwash? Voluntary Environmental Standards, Public Law, and Private Authority in Canada / Stepan Wood6 The Emergence of Identity-Based Associations in Collective Bargaining Relations / Christian BrunelleContributorsIndex
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MN - University of British Columbia Press Resisting Manchukuo
Book SynopsisReveals the literary world of Japanese-occupied Manchuria (Manchukuo, 1932-45). This book examines the lives, careers, and literary legacies of seven prolific Chinese women writers during the occupation. It is suitable for those who study the history of East Asia, imperialism, and women.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Chinese Women and Cultural Production in a Japanese Colonial Context2 Foundations of Colonial Rule in Manchukuo and the “Woman Question”3 Manchukuo’s Chinese-Language Literary World4 Forging Careers in Manchukuo5 Disrupting the Patriarchal Foundations of Manchukuo6 Contesting Colonial Society7 The Collapse of Empire and Careers8 Resisting ManchukuoNotesBibliographyIndex
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MN - University of British Columbia Press What Could a University Be
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MN - University of British Columbia Press Changing Neighbourhoods
Book SynopsisChanging Neighbourhoods offers revealing insights into the way that Canadian cities have grown increasingly unequal and polarized since 1980, identifying the causal factors driving neighbourhood change and their troubling implications.
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MN - University of British Columbia Press The Theatre of Regret
Book SynopsisThe Theatre of Regret reveals the role that Indigenous and allied literatures play in challenging state-centred discourses of reconciliation in Canada.
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MN - University of British Columbia Press Sea Change Charting a Sustainable Future for
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John Wiley & Sons Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage Ne
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MN - University of British Columbia Press Unearthing Forgotten Values
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Baker Publishing Group Your Mess Gods Miracle The Process Is Temporary
Book SynopsisBestselling author and pastor Samuel Rodriguez reminds us that our God is still God--even in the midst of our mess--and while his process is temporary, his promise is permanent. Here is the practical, hope-infused roadmap for anyone with the audacity to replace fear with faith and walk through their mess and into God's miracle.
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Baker Publishing Group God Loves Sex An Honest Conversation about
Book SynopsisA psychologist and a biblical scholar use a unique blend of fiction and biblical teaching to reveal the honest to goodness truth about desire, beauty, physical intimacy, sexual struggles, and the glory of sex.
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Baker Publishing Group Why Do I Do What I Dont Want to Do Replace
Book SynopsisSpeaker, pastor, and popular author calls us to replace mere virtue signaling with the world-changing practice of living a virtuous life characterized by humility, gratitude, generosity, forgiveness, self-control, and more.
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Cornell University Press Forgotten Men and Fallen Women
Book SynopsisHolly Allen explores popular and official narratives of forgotten manhood, fallen womanhood, and other social and moral archetypes during the Great Depression and the Second World War.Trade ReviewAllen's incisive analysis of the New Deal’s gender politics are the strength of this book. She convincingly shows how the New Deal used conservative and traditional ideas about gender to assuage American’s fears concerning the expansion of government power and new ideas about social citizenship and responsibility. -- Chris Wilhelm * H-Net *Holly Allen offers a compelling analysis of how widely circulated narratives about diverse figures such as the 'forgotten man,' the 'nagging wife,' and the Kibei 'troublemaker' shaped ordinary men's and women's understanding of their relationship to the economic, political, and social upheavals of the Great Depression and World War II. Allen posits that these narratives also help us to understand the era's vast growth of federal power and the many structural inequalities inherent in the emergent welfare state. By analyzing in tandem a range of civic tropes and a variety of core New Deal–era government programs, Allen reveals in rich detail how the gender, racial, and sexual conventions of both the grassroots and federal policymakers forged a civic culture focused largely on preserving the authority of white male heterosexual breadwinners. This book is an important and fascinating contribution to multiple threads of scholarship on popular culture, race, gender, sexuality, and the growth of the federal state during the Great Depression and World War II. -- Sarah Potter * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction. "More Terrible than the Sword": Emotions, Facts, and Gendered New Deal Narratives1. The War to Save the Forgotten Man: Gender, Citizenship, and the Politics of Work Relief2. "Uncle Sam's Wayside Inns": Transient Narratives and the Sexual Politics of the Emergent Welfare State3. "Builder of Men": Homosociality and the Nationalist Accents of the Civilian Conservation Corps4. "To Wallop the Ladies": Woman Blaming and Nation Saving in the Rhetoric of Emergency Relief5. Civilian Protectors and Meddlesome Women: Gendering the War Effort through the Office of Civilian Defense6. The Citizen-Soldier and the Citizen-Internee: Fraternity, Race, and American Nationhood, 1942–46Conclusion. Stories of Homecoming: Deserving GIs and Faithless Service WivesNotes Index
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Cornell University Press Voicing American Poetry
Book SynopsisThe most interesting tensions and ambitions of twentieth-century American poetry intersect in one resonant word: voice. The term "poetic voice" emphasizes poetry's reliance on sound, which is prominent in ethnic American writings, new formalism, and...Trade ReviewThis is a fine study which demonstrates the innovative ways poets have tested the limits of poetry and the relationship between poet and audience.... As a teacher, reader, and writer of poetry who is watching the poetry community fragment and stagnate in unproductive ways, I find Wheeler's study an important contribution to the conversation that I hope will provide a framework by which we may incorporate these many differing methods of performing poetic voice. -- Heidi Czerwiec * North Dakota Quarterly *
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MB - Cornell University Press The Practice of Theory
Book SynopsisMany art historians regard poststructuralist theory with suspicion; some even see its focus on the political dimension of language as hostile to an authentic study of the past. Keith Moxey bridges the gap between historical and theoretical...
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Cornell University Press Engaging Science How to Understand Its Practices
Book SynopsisSummarizing this century's major debates over realism and the rationality of scientific knowledge, Joseph Rouse believes that these disputes oversimplify the political and cultural significance of the sciences. He provides an alternative understanding of science that focuses on practices rather than knowledge.Rouse first outlines the shared...Trade ReviewAn ambitious attempt to outline an alternative to the dominant philosophical and social constructivist efforts to make sense of science.... [Rouse] extends his examination of practice, local knowledge, and the politics of science into a full-fledged conception of philosophy of science as cultural studies. * Isis *
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Cornell University Press Korean Workers
Book SynopsisForty years of rapid industrialization have transformed millions of South Korean peasants and their sons and daughters into urban factory workers. Hagen Koo explores the experiences of this first generation of industrial workers and describes its struggles to improve working conditions in the factory and to search for justice in society. The working class in South Korea was born in a cultural and political environment extremely hostile to its development, Koo says. Korean workers forged their collective identity much more rapidly, however, than did their counterparts in other newly industrialized countries in East Asia. This book investigates how South Korea''s once-docile and submissive workers reinvented themselves so quickly into a class with a distinct identity and consciousness. Based on sources ranging from workers'' personal writings to union reports to in-depth interviews, this book is a penetrating analysis of the South Korean working-class experience. Koo reveals how cultuTrade ReviewThe influence of cultural and political forces on the construction of a working-class identity in mid- and late-20th-century South Korea is investigated.... Although the future of the South Korean working class remains undetermined, it is concluded that previous generations of workers made substantial gains in improving working conditions and achieving social justice. * Sociological Abstracts *This book examines how Korean workers have interpreted their experiences, recognized their common interest, and achieved class consciousness and a collective identity in an environment undergoing rapid social and economic change. The author draws on broad statistical evidence and research data, which he analyzed over a period of ten years. He collected statistical data covering thirty years of industrialization, and also examined interview transcripts, first-generation workers' essays and diaries, union newspapers, and other materials. The resulting detailed analysis offers several rich insights.... Informed by the author's unique perspective and the variety of sources on which he ably draws, Korean Workers brings important theoretical and methodological insights to the field of Korean working-class studies. * Industrial and Labor Relations Review *With Korean Workers, sociologist Hagen Koo turns to the growth of class consciousness among female and male workers from the 1970s to the 1990s, in the process providing a useful overview of an exceptional period in Korean history from the ground up. * Anthropology of Work Review *This book is highly recommended. It is the overdue, first serious, comprehensive, and well-researched study on South Korean working-class formation available to English readers. For those who are interested in Korean political economy, I believe that this book will provide a story that is overlooked by the developmental state literature. For those who are interested in labor studies and industrial sociology, this book shows how theories on class formation can be wonderfully combined to illustrate a particular case. * Labour/Le Travail *This book represents a fascinating history of the growth of class consciousness in one of the developing world's most militant labor movements as it overcame an inhospitable culture and despotic work conditions. Well informed by social science theory, Hagen Koo has written an analytically astute, yet unusually sensitive and sympathetic, account of working-class formation in modem Korea. * Korea Journal *This is a well-written cogently argued alternative picture of Korean society from the perspective of workers who have won little attention thus far. Scholars, students of Korean society, and, indeed, students of comparative labor movements will learn much of Korea in the volume. * Work and Occupations *
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MB - Cornell University Press The Birds of Ecuador
Book SynopsisVolume II, the field guide volume of this two-volume set, contains 96 full-color plates and facing pages of descriptive text, along with 115 silhouette outlines and nearly 1600 distribution maps.Trade ReviewThe Field Guide volume, 'intended primarily for field use,' contains plates, distribution maps, and text geared toward the identification of all the birds of Ecuador (excluding the Galapagos Islands). Its companion, Status, Distribution, and Taxonomy, suggested 'for your library (or hotel room or even car),' covers the occurrence and systematics of these same species. Undoubtedly, the field guide will be the volume most often consulted; an excellent aid for field identification of Ecuadorian birds, it will also be useful in much of Colombia, northern Peru, and western Brazil. Illustrations make or break a field guide. The 96 color plates, all by Greenfield, are vibrant, clear, and very effective. They depict nearly the entire avifauna, including migrants and species known in Ecuador only from a single record. They also show many rarely illustrated plumages (such as in the highly polymorphic hawks and eagles).... The Field Guide will be indispensable to all field biologists and birdwatchers visiting Ecuador and northwestern South America. * Science *What Ridgely and Greenfield have produced is arguably the most important publication on birds in the region since the appearance of Wetmore's... treatise on the birds of Panama a half-century ago.... The accounts are compacted but chock-full of information, covering status, habitat, field marks, similar species, habits, and voice. Despite the fact that this is a superb field guide,... it is the companion volume that elevates these books to a rarefied standing. This book consists of accounts for all the species in the field guide.... The second volume makes this set more than just a field guide and handbook. It makes it perhaps the single most important reference for students, professionals, and bird watchers interested in the birds of South America, one that will be a first source for decades. * Bird Watcher's Digest *Many of us can only long to travel to exotic birding places in South America,... but Ridgely and Greenfield live the dream and generously share it with us through their exquisite writings and paintings.... In summary, this is a thorough and thoughtful production that not only provides useful and complete information, but does so in a user-friendly manner.... The decades-long wait for these volumes has been worth it! * Birders Journal *The long awaited The Birds of Ecuador is finally out and the results are well worth the wait. The 2-volume set is a massive piece of work and the authors intended the 2-volume set to be used by both traveling birders and ornithologists.... Both volumes complement each other perfectly and are well worth the price. These volumes add tremendously to the available information of South American avifauna. * Surfbirds Book Reviews *This long awaited, monumental two volume set reveals the ornithological secrets and diversity of this small Latin American nation.... The two amassed so much information, they could not fit it in one book.... The Birds of Ecuador is an incredible achievement and is most highly recommended. * Wildlife Activist *This outstanding work is the culmination of a 20-year collaboration between Ridgely... and Greenfield.... Indispensable for those planning to do bird work in Ecuador or surrounding countries. Should be in every library with major holdings on bird life or tropical ecology. * Choice *The Birds of Ecuador is a monumental guide to the birds of this country and does a remarkable job of describing them all.... Volume 1 of The Birds of Ecuador could stand alone as a resource; however, it is completed (and made much more useful) by the accompanying volume 2 with its illustrations, descriptions, and range maps. The two volumes of this title will remain the stand for this country and for other South American bird guides for a long time. It is highly recommended for any research library. * E-Streams *Table of ContentsPlan of the BookBeginning With BirdsColor PlatesTinamiformesTinamidae - TinamousPodicipediformesPodicipedidae - GrebesSphenisciformesSpheniscidae - PenguinsProcellariilormesDiomedeidae - AlbatrossesProcellariidae - Shearwaters and PetrelsHydrobatidae - Storm-PetrelsPelecaniformesPhaethontidae - TropicbirdsFregatidae - FrigatebirdsSulidae - Boobies and GannetsPhalacrocoracidae - Cormorants and ShagsAnhingidae - DartersPelecanidae - PelicansAnseriformesAnhimidae - ScreamersAnatidae - Ducks, Geese, and SwansPhoenicopteriformesPhoenicopteridae - FlamingosCiconiilormesArdeidae - Herons, Bitterns, and EgretsThreskiornithidae - Ibises and SpoonbillsCiconiidae - StorksCathartidae - American VulturesFalconiformesAccipitridae - Kites, Eagles, Hawks, and OspreyFalconidae - Falcons and CaracarasGalliformesCracidae - Curassows, Guans, and ChachalacasOdontophoridae - New World QuailsGruiformesRallidae - Rails, Gallinules, and CootsEurypygidae - SunbitternHeliornithidae - FinfootsAramidae - LimpkinPsophiidae - TrumpetersCharadriiformesJacanidae - JacanasScolopacidae - Sandpipers, Snipes, and PhalaropesThinocoridae - SeedsnipesBurhinidae - Thick-kneesHaematopodidae - OystercatchersRecurvirostridae - Stilts and AvocetsCharadriidae - Plovers and LapwingsStercorariidae - Skuas and JaegersLaridae - Gulls and TernsRynchopidae - SkimmersColumbiformesColumbidae - Pigeons and DovesPsillaciformesPsittacidae - Parrots and MacawsCuculiformesCuculidae - Cuckoos and AnisOpisthocomidae - HoatzinSlrioiformesTytonidae - Barn OwlsStrigidae - Typical OwlsCaprimulgiformesSteatornithidae - OilbirdNyctibiidae - PotoosCaprimulgidae - Nightjars and NighthawksApodilormesApodidae - SwiftsTrochilidae - HummingbirdsTrogoniformesTrogonidae - Trogons and QuetzalsCoraciiformesAlcedinidae - KingfishersMomotidae - MotmotsPiciformesGalbiilidae - JacamarsBucconidae - PuffbirdsCapitonidae - New World BarbetsRamphastidae - ToucansPicidae - Woodpeckers and PiculetsPasserilormesFurnariidae - OvenbirdsDendrocolaptidae - WoodcreepersThamnophilidae - Typical AntbirdsFormicariidae - Antthrushes and AntpittasConopophagidae - GnateatersRhinocryptidae - TapaculosTyrannidae - Tyrant FlycatchersCotingidae - CotingasPipridae - ManakinsCorvidae - Crows, Jays, and MagpiesVireonidae - Vireos, Peppershrikes, and Shrike-VireosTurdidae - ThrushesMimidae - Mockingbirds and ThrashersCinclidae - DippersHirundinidae - Swallows and MartinsTroglodytidae - WrensPolioptilidae - Gnatcatchers and GnatwrensMotacillidae - Pipits and WagtailsParulidae - New World WarblersThraupidae - Tanagers, Honeycrccpers, Bananaquit, and PlushcapCardinalidac - Saltators, Grosbeaks, and CardinalsEmbcnzidae - Emherizine FinchesIcteridae - American Orioles and BlackbirdsFringillidae - Cardueline FinchesPasseridae - Old World SparrowsBibliographyIndex of English NamesIndex of Scientific Names
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Cornell University Press Brokered Homeland
Book SynopsisFaced with an aging workforce, Japanese firms are hiring foreign workers in ever-increasing numbers. In 1990 Japan's government began encouraging the migration of Nikkeijin (overseas Japanese) who are presumed to assimilate more easily than are...Trade ReviewThe story that was once told about citizens of foreign countries who could demonstrate Japanese ancestry was that even if they had never been to Japan, even if they couldn't speak the language, they nevertheless remained, in some essential way, Japanese.... Brokered Homeland focuses on the way in which these people's self-understanding—as well as other people's understanding of them—shifts as a result of their experiences in Japan.... Roth is an astute observer and a graceful writer. -- David Cozy * The Japan Times *There is much to enjoy in both of these books. They are both well written (Roth's three-paragraph account of the kite-flying festival in Hamamatsu sets a scene as well as any recent ethnography I have read) and well structured.... Roth's book is probably the one for students doing an option on Japan: punchy and to the point, easily read in a long afternoon. -- Roger Goodman, University of Oxford * Journal of Japanese Studies *
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Cornell University Press On the Subject of Java
Book SynopsisWhat are the limits of cultural critique? What are the horizons? What are the political implications? John Pemberton explores these questions in this far-reaching ethnographic and historical interpretation of cultural discourse in Indonesia since 1965. Pemberton considers in particular how the appearance of order under Soeharto''s repressive New Order regime is an effect of an enigmatic politics founded upon routine appeals to cultural values.Through a richly textured ethnographic account of events ranging from national elections to weddings, Pemberton simultaneously elucidates and disturbs the contours of the New Order cultural imaginary. He pursues the fugitive signs of circumstances that might resist the powers of New Order rule through unexpected village practices, among graveyard spirits, and within ascetic refuges.Key to this study is a reexamination of the historical conditions under which a discourse of culture emerges. Providing a close reading of a number of Trade ReviewI highly recommend Pemberton's study of Java to scholars of ritual for its complex and nuanced treatment of the relationship of ritual and politics. * Journal of Ritual Studies *
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Science of Orgasm
Book SynopsisCovering every type of sexual peak experience in women and men-from intense to phantom-this informative and entertaining work illuminates the hows, whats, and wherefores of orgasm.Trade ReviewIn considerable but lucid detail, three researchers from different fields address every aspect of the science behind orgasms, from why they feel so good to whether transsexual men with surgically created vaginas can have them. New Scientist 2006 Approach the book with any question you can conjure about the whys and wherefores of orgasm and you'll receive a minutely detailed answer that incorporates findings from the latest sex research. Psychology Today 2006 Behind its tongue-in-cheek 'plain brown wrapper' cover, this unique book offers a thorough compilation of what modern science, from biomechanics to neurochemistry, knows about the secrets of orgasm. Publishers Weekly 2006 Those with real faith in science as an exit route from dysfunction might want to check out The Science of Orgasm. Elle 2006 The authors cast gimlet eyes over such subjects as multiple and phantom orgasm, as well as the biological process and the effects of various drugs on it. A most stimulating read. Gay Times 2007 A neuroscientist, an endocrinologist and a sex researcher team up to create an impressively comprehensive book about orgasms. In intimate detail, authors Barry R. Komisaruk, Carlos Beyer-Flores and Beverly Whipple... discuss the history, mechanics, physiology and neurochemistry of this most mysterious of physical events. Los Angeles Times 2007 Twenty-five years after she made the G-Spot famous, Professor Beverly Whipple is still probing the mysteries of the female orgasm. She has shifted her focus higher up the body-to the brain-exploring the areas that light up when women climax. Sydney Morning Herald 2007 Important information about sexuality... Highly recommended. Choice 2007 There are very few books on this subject area and the book is highly commended. It is certainly one to add to the personal library of clinicians working in human sexuality. Journal of Sexual Relationship and Therapy (UK) 2007 This is a very easy book to read... There are very few books on this subject area and the book is highly recommended. -- Kevan R. Wylie Sexual and Relationship Therapy 2007 A readable comprehensive account on the literature of orgasm. All psychosexual clinics will need to have a copy as well as anyone who advises others about psychosexual problems. -- Nick Dunn British Journal of Psychiatry 2007 The authors should be congratulated on taking the trouble to produce a readable comprehensive account of the literature on orgasm. All psychosexual clinics will need to have a copy as well as anyone who advises others about psychosexual problems. British Journal of Psychiatry 2007 The book deserves its eye-catching title... An excellent, well-written assembly of the current scientific understanding of not only the phenomenon of orgasm but of sexual pleasure in general. JAMA 2008Table of ContentsPreface1. Definitions of Orgasm2. Different Nerves, Different Orgasmic Feelings3. Bodily Changes at Orgasm4. Are Orgasms Good for Your Health?5. When Things Go Wrong6. Diseases That Affect Orgasm7. How Aging Affects Orgasm8. Pleasure and Satisfaction with and without Orgasm9. The Nervous System Connection10. The Neurochemistry of Orgasm11. Effects of Medication12. Counteracting Medication Side Effects13. Recreational Stimulant Drugs and Orgasm14. Depressant Drugs and Orgasm15. Herbal Therapies16. Hormones and Orgasm17. Mechanism of Action of Sex Steroids18. Nonreproductive Hormones in Orgasm19. Atypical Orgasms20. The Genital-Brain Connection21. Orgasms after Brain Surgery or Brain Damage22. Imaging the Brain during Sexual Arousal and Orgasm23. The Cast of Characters: How Brain Components Contribute to Orgasm24. Consciousness and OrgasmGlossaryReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Kinematics
Book SynopsisMartinez draws from an unparalleled wealth of sources to demonstrate why it is essential to the study and evolution of physics today.Trade ReviewFascinating... Recommended. Choice The author uses clear and easy-to-understand language to describe how kinematics is essential to the modern study of physics. Scitech Book News 2010 A great deal of interesting historical material on kinematic ideas... the story of Einstein's pathway to discovery is a gem... an illuminating pleasure to read. Einstein, the smasher of earlier images of physics, would have been the first to applaud this very human account of himself and this period of his life. Perhaps this text will turn out to be inspirational reading for some future young Einstein! -- Peter J. Bussey Contemporary Physics 2011 The book is really two books in one... Martinez deserves our gratitude for digging up a rich selection of recollections. Physics in Perspective 2011 This often-overlooked branch of mechanics, which describes objects' motion, provided the foundation for special relativity. Science News Martinez draws from an unparalleled wealth of sources. -- Hans-Jurgen Schmidt Zentralblatt Math 2011Table of ContentsPreface1. Big Picture: Rise of a Rejected Science2. Where to Begin? Invisible Causes or Visible Motions3. Ambiguous Truths: The Allegedly Pure Science of Motion4. Debates over Language: Coordinates versus Vectors5. Scientific Definitions: The Concepts of Space and Time6. Discovery and Invention: Conceptual Origins of Einstein's Relativity7. Text and Equations: Elements of Einstein's Kinematics8. Critical History: The Algebra of MotionBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish
Book SynopsisIt not only celebrates Cavendish as a true figure of the scientific age but contributes to a broader understanding of the contested nature of the scientific revolution.Trade ReviewA useful addition to the canon of critical work on the scientific revolution. Choice 2010 A welcome addition to early modern philosophy courses, in which women are often entirely absent or subordinated. Using Cavendish and Sarasohn's book will lead to very interesting discussions about the role of women in science and society in the early modern period. -- Benjamin Goldberg HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 2011Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Gender, Nature, and Natural Philosophy1. A Wonderful Natural Philosopher2. Cavendish's Early Atomism3. The Life of Matter4. The Imaginative Universe of Natures Pictures5. The Politics of Matter6. The Challenge of Immaterial Matter7. Cavendish against the Experimenters8. Material RegenerationsConclusion: Does Cavendish Matter?NotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press CrossCultural Scientific Exchanges in the Eastern
Book SynopsisHis findings reshape our understanding of scientific discourse in this critical period and contribute to the growing field of cross-cultural Christian-Muslim studies.Trade ReviewEach chapter is meticulously researched and includes a bibliography divided into primary, secondary, and reference sections. Choice Ben-Zaken sheds new light on our understanding of cross-cultural scientific exchanges... The book demonstrates... the crucial part played by the ottoman Empire in the fashioning of a global world, not only in terms of its dialogues with the European empires, but also it conflicts. -- Antonella Romano Renaissance Quarterly A fruitful way to explore how it was that the new scientific theories and methods produced in early modern Europe became the globally practiced science of the 21st century. -- Brian Ogilvie American Scientist This is a serious, and remarkable, work of scholarship, and as such it very much deserves to be the starting point for further debate. Ben-Zaken does an excellent job of showing how and why the to and fro of information exchange, and of enterprise, results not just in distortion but sometimes in embellishment or enhancement. -- John Henry American Historical Review An exciting book that will be the archetype of the new generation of scholarship... Ben-Zaken presents his stories in a robust narrative... and offers many brilliant plot lines that incorporate a very diverse body of scholarship. He goes a long way toward establishing that the Mediterranean was a well-integrated cultural zone and that the main factor that divides the histories of science in this area is language. -- B. Harun Kucuk Isis The breadth of this study, geographically and in terms of methodology, constitutes an impressive achievement, infinitely expanding a traditional view of early modern science. -- Joanna Carraway Vietello Journal of World History Ben-Zaken's book offers an intriguing approach, empirically richer and more innovative... Doubtless Ben-Zaken has demonstrated with much inventive ingenuity that during these first decades of the Scientific Revolution a variety of remarkable encounters took place in the Eastern basin of the Mediterranean. -- H. Floris Cohen Early Science and Medicine This book demonstrates Ben-Zaken to be an indefatigable seeker of historical knowledge as well as an amazing linguistic virtuoso. -- Irving A. Kelter Sixteenth Century Journal The book offers five case studies, each of which takes the reader into fascinating territory... that underscores the study's underlying theme of science as textual, material presence, celebrated, promoted, exchanged, copied, bought and sold. Thus the study operates simultaneously as challenging occidental prejudices in the academy (a welcome trend in recent years) and aligning itself with a materialist sensibility now firmly established in early modern scholarship. It offers sociological insights into how the kind of accidental, contingent exchange of knowledge leads to further discoveries -developments whose contingency and localism is flattened out in the writing of history. -- Mark Hutchings British Society for Literature and Science This book is one of those rare works that sehds light on a thoroughly studied area (The Scientific Revolution), making it look fresh and challenging... It invites us to reassess the established views about the origins of modern science and the factors that fuelled its expansion. -- Manolis Patiniotis Journal of the International Committee for the History of TechnologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Incommensurable Cultures?1. Trading Clocks, Globes, and Captives in the End Time2. Exchanging Heliocentrism for Ur-Text3. Transcending Time in the Scribal East4. Converting Measurements and Invoking the "Linguistic Leviathan"5. Exchanging Heavens and HeartsConclusion: From "Incommensurablility of Cultures" to Mutually Embraced ZonesAcknowledgmentsNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Prism and the Rainbow A Christian Explains
Book SynopsisHe urges his fellow Christians to refuse to participate in the intellectually stifling debate over evolution and creationism/intelligent design.Trade ReviewCovers the Christian debate over Darwin-and finds that much of the controversy in the U.S. over evolution is manufactured on a complete, often willful miss-appreciation of basic science. Chapters serve to erase these errors, offering insights into robots of debates about evolution and supporting Christianity and a less literal interpretation of Biblical ideas. Christian collections need this! Midwest Book Review If you are a young person who has been looking for a way both to retain your personal faith and appreciate the wonders of modern science, you cannot find a better book than this one. If you are the parent of a young person who has raised the question of the relationship between science and religion, you owe it to that young person to help prevent what could be a totally unnecessary dilemma as your child encounters the massive, compelling evidence for evolution in college biology classes. Louisiana Coalition for Science 2010 This is a book that would be well worth including in the library of any school or college that educates students over the age of 16. -- Michael Reiss School Science Review 2011 Joel W. Martin offers a book to an audience of students and parents (and presumably to other nontheological experts). Its purpose is to make a case supporting the thesis that evolutionary biology is consistent with Christian theology, and further, that evolution supports major biblical themes. Martin also wants to inform his readers of the nature of science, some areas of past conflict (and eventual resolution) between science and faith, and some cautionary advice for Christian laity in their Bible reading as they attempt to discern the Bible's message to us today. In our opinion, Martin does all of this effectively in a concise package. Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 2011Table of ContentsIntroduction1. By the Numbers2. The Prism and the Rainbow3. The Flat Earth Society4. Of Serpents and Certainty5. The Nature of Science6. What Does "Theory" Mean?7. What Is Evolution?8. What Is Creationism?9. What Is Intelligent Design?10. Is There Evidence Supporting Intelligent Design?11. Human Arrogance12. In the Beginning13. The Unnecessary Choice14. What Are We to Believe?AcknowledgmentsAppendix: Major Christian Denominations and Their Stance on Science, Evolution, and Creationism/ Intelligent DesignNotesGlossaryRecommended Further ReadingHelpful Web SitesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra
Book SynopsisMathematicians and historians of mathematics and science will find in The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra new ways to conceptualize the intellectual development of linear algebra.Trade ReviewA pivotal work in the history of non-Western mathematics that will revolutionize people's understanding of the origins of techniques previously viewed as Western inventions. Choice 2011Table of ContentsPreface1. IntroductionOverview of This BookHistoriographic IssuesOutline of the Chapters2. PreliminariesChinese ConventionsChinese MathematicsModern Mathematical Terminology3. The Sources: Written Records of Early Chinese MathematicsPractices and Texts in Early Chinese MathematicsThe Book of ComputationThe Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Arts4. Excess and DeficitExcess and Deficit Problems in the Book of Computation"Excess and Deficit," Chapter 7 of the Nine Chapters5. Fangcheng, Chapter 8 of the Nine ChaptersThe Fangcheng ProcedureProcedure for Positive and Negative NumbersConclusions6. The Fangcheng Procedure in Modern Mathematical TermsConspectus of Fangcheng Problems in the Nine ChaptersEliminationBack SubstitutionIs the Fangcheng Procedure Integer-Preserving?Conclusions7. The Well ProblemTraditional Solutions to the Well ProblemThe Earliest Extant Record of a Determinantal CalculationThe Earliest Extant Record of a Determinantal SolutionConclusions8. Evidence of Early Determinantal SolutionsThe Classification of ProblemsFive Problems from the Nine ChaptersConclusions9. ConclusionsThe Early History of Linear AlgebraQuestions for Further ResearchMethodological IssuesSignificance and ImplicationsAppendix A: Examples of Similar ProblemsExamples from Diophantus's ArithmeticaExamples from ModernWorks on Linear AlgebraAppendix B: Chinese Mathematical TreatisesBibliographies of Chinese Mathematical TreatisesMathematical Treatises Listed in Chinese BibliographiesAppendix C: Outlines of ProofsBibliography of Primary and Secondary SourcesIndex
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MY - University of Toronto Press Dictionary of Canadian Biography Dictionaire Biographique Du Canada
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MY - University of Toronto Press Property Mainstream and Critical Positions
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MY - University of Toronto Press A Guide to Chaucers Pronunciation
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MY - University of Toronto Press Fables
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University of Nebraska Press The Last Summer of Reason
Book SynopsisBoualem Yekker, a bookstore owner lives in a country being overtaken by the Vigilant Brothers, a radically conservative party that seeks to control every element of life according to the laws of their stringent moral theology: no work of beauty created by human hands should rival the wonders of their god.Trade Review“The Last Summer of Reason has acquired a new and haunting immediacy since the attacks of September 11. . . . Deftly translated from the French by Marjolijn de Jager, and with a foreword by Wole Soyinka, the novel provides an anguished dispatch from what nearly became Algeria’s future. . . . An elegiac ode to literature and a furious protest against intolerance.”—Adam Shatz, New York Times“One is reminded of how life-affirming and dangerous literature still can be.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune"The Last Summer of Reason provides a powerful and strangely beautiful reminder of the danger of letting violent ideological fundamentalism fester. We would do well to heed this reminder now, not later."—Jennifer Bryson, Public DiscourseTable of ContentsIntroductionForewordSermon 1The Vigilant BrothersWhen will the quake happen?The summer when time stoppedPilgrim of the new timesThe Good whose substance the Almighty establishedThe nocturnal tribunalThe binding textA dream shaped like madnessThe future is a closed doorThe message suppressedFor that we will live, for that we will die...Therapists of the spiritOne should come from nowhereThe unknown arbiterBorn to have a bodyDoes death make noise as it moves?
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University of Nebraska Press PseudoMemoirs Life and Its Imitation in Modern
Book SynopsisPseudo-Memoir explores the return in the twentieth century of a genre that had largely gone out of fashion after the novel came of age in Europe in the eighteenth century. Trade Review"Pseudo-Memoirs is a great scholarly achievement that has lain the groundwork for new directions in research on (auto-)biographical fiction."—Benjamin Schaper, Germanic Review"The literary eccentrics studied here have been gathered together before . . . but Tobias's highly original and creative philosophical argument makes it a gathering worth attending."—Paul Buchholz, Monatshefte“With its bold reevaluation of the relationship between fictional and nonfictional discourses, Pseudo-Memoirs offers an important new perspective on the concept of realism and invites us to rethink our understanding of the ideological force of authorial paradigms.”—Jan Mieszkowski, author of Crises of the Sentence“Remarkable. . . . Refreshingly immune to the passing fads of our critical situation, Rochelle Tobias’s sober and caring study makes valuable and lasting contributions to the intersection of literature and philosophy, German studies, comparative modernism, literary theory, narratology, and the study of aesthetic autobiography.”—Gerhard Richter, University Professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies at Brown UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Phenomenology and the Truth of Fiction 1. The Character: Thomas Mann’s Felix Krull 2. The Narrator: Robert Walser’s Jakob von Gunten 3. The Work: Thomas Bernhard’s Extinction 4. The Author: W. G. Sebald’s Vertigo Conclusion: On the Value of Dissembling Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus
Book SynopsisIn 1957, Joseph Spagna and five other men waited to board a bus called the Sunnyland. Their plan was: ride the bus together - three blacks and three whites - get arrested and take their case to the US Supreme Court. This book chronicles the story of an American family against the backdrop of one of the civil rights movement's lesser-known stories.Trade Review“Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus stands as a magnificent testament and tribute to the lives of many people—Ana Maria Spagna’s parents, the many patriots of the civil rights movement, and the citizens of communities far and wide, large and small. Her surprising story renewed my awe in the interconnectedness of all of our lives and affirmed that the current championing of hope in our country is a hope deserving of all its fervor.”—Kathleen Finneran, author of The Tender Land: A Family Love Story"A beautifully written account."—Teresa Scollon, ForeWord"With this new and nuanced memoir, Ana Maria Spagna shows us yet another facet of herself. In the field of universal human questions, "Who am I?" takes a close second to the simple yet elegant, "Why?" The author crosscuts through both in Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus."—Ann Beman, Literary Review"[Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus is] a personal journey, filled with revelation after revelation about humanity and family and self."—Joe Ponepinto, Raven Chronicles"Test Ride is the story of Ana Maria's voyage of personal discovery, as much autobiography as biography, as she comes to terms with memories and family relationships."—Paul T. Murray, MultiCultural ReviewTable of ContentsPart 1 – I Think I Can Serve1 – In Front of Speed’s 2 – Never Go Back 3 – The Tallahassee Bus Boycott 4 – The Acquaintance of Grief 5 – The Forgotten Coast 6 – Something More Part 2 – A Highly Personal Thing7 – Handwriting 8 – Herndon 9 – The Cloven Hoof 10 – City of Hope 11 – Folsom 12 – Community Care 13 – A Real Difference 14 – Orchard Burning Part 3 – Fiftieth Anniversary15 – Every. Single. Day. 16 – Tarpon Springs 17 – Not Forgotten 18 – Heroes and Sheroes 19 – Always Go Forward Epilogue – No Big Deal Acknowledgments
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University of Nebraska Press Offenders or Victims German Jews and the Causes
Book SynopsisSome scholars allege that the Jews' own conduct was the main cause of the hatred directed toward them in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Olaf Blaschke takes up this provocative question by considering the tensions between German Catholicism and Judaism in the period of the Kulturkämpfe.Trade Review"Blaschke's work is as deeply research as it is valuable and suggestive."—William D. Rubinstein, Journal of Jewish StudiesTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Catholic Attitudes toward Jews-Challenging Explanations of Catholic Antisemitism-The Nature of Catholic Antisemitism2. Jewish Attitudes towards Catholics-Explaining Antisemitism with Regard to "Jewish Offenders"-Explaining Catholic Antisemitism without Jews3. Jewish Views of Catholic Antisemitism-Emphasizing Good Relations between Jews and Catholics-Presenting Catholic Antisemites as Exceptions-Referring to Antisemitism DirectlyConclusion: Explaining Antisemitism without Reference to JewsSources and LiteratureIndex
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U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Nebraska Government and Politics
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University of Nebraska Press Witch Hunts in the Western World
Book SynopsisExplores the intersection of religion, politics, and the supernatural that spawned the notorious witch hunts in Europe and the New World. Brian A. Pavlac discusses witch hunts in fascinating detail by region, highlighting the cultural differences of the people who incited them as well as the key reforms, social upheavals, and intellectual debates that shaped European thought.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChronologyChapter 1: An Introduction to Witch-HuntingChapter 2: Medieval Origins of the Witch HuntsChapter 3: Witch-Hunting in the Holy Roman EmpireChapter 4: The Witch Hunts in FranceChapter 5: Witch-Hunting in the British RealmsChapter 6: Witch-Hunting in Southern EuropeChapter 7: Witch-Hunting in Northern and Eastern EuropeChapter 8: Beyond the Witch HuntsGlossarySelected BibliographyIndex
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MQ - University of Nebraska Press Private Property
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University of Nebraska Press Riding the Trail of Tears
Book SynopsisA surrealistic revisiting of the Cherokee Removal, Riding the Trail of Tears takes us to north Georgia in the near future, into a virtual-reality tourist compound where customers ride the Trail of Tears, and into the world of Tallulah Wilson, a Cherokee woman who works there.Trade Review“A dazzling futurist novel about a traumatic episode in U.S. history. Reader, when you accept Blake Hausman’s invitation to ride the Trail of Tears in a theme park, be warned that you will become a participant in the Cherokee Removal, and not simply a witness.”—Bharati Mukherjee, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and author of The Tree Bride“There are few authors who take this kind of narrative risk in Native literatures. Histories of the Trail of Tears have been published, but Blake Hausman’s telling of it is unique.”—John Purdy, coeditor of Nothing but the Truth: An Anthology of Native American Literature"Character development and a good story team up with technology in Hausman's innovative debut novel set in the world of virtual reality."—Publishers Weekly"Hausman's ironic tale of revising this shameful and horrific historic moment so that Anglos experience in virtual time what the Cherokee suffered 175 years ago is humorous and uniquely moving."—Deborah Donovan, Booklist"[Riding the Trail of Tears] offers much that can't be found elsewhere in today's fiction."—David Keymer, Library Journal"Riding the Trail of Tears is an engaging and entertaining read. . . . It has a narrative and a main character that keeps a reader wanting to keep going all the way through."—Matthew Long, Big MuddyTable of Contents[No TOC]
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MQ - University of Nebraska Press The Imaginary Jew
Book SynopsisThe Holocaust changed what it means to be a Jew, for Jew and non-Jew alike. This title decodes the shifts in anti-Semitism at the end of the Cold War, chronicles the impact of Israel's policies on European Jews, opposes arguments both for and against cultural assimilation, and reopens questions about Marx and Judaism.Trade Review“The Imaginary Jew is brilliant and rueful and bitter at the same time. It shows the joint influence of Sartre and Philip Roth—a combination that only Alain Finkielkraut could bring off.”—New Yorker“Finkielkraut’s profoundly personal account of his struggle with Jewish identity is entertaining, witty and . . . unquestionably insightful.”—Jewish Chronicle“Finkielkraut is exciting to read; good to think with. He delivers sharp and smart prose. . . . [A] most compelling book.”—Voice Literary Supplement
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University of Nebraska Press New Roots for Agriculture
Book SynopsisOffers a documented criticism of the assumptions and the effects of industrial agriculture. This book proposes practical remedies. It documents some trends in our ability to produce food.Trade Review"New Roots for Agriculture is a landmark. . . . It offers a sound, thoroughly documented criticism of the assumptions and the effects of industrial agriculture; for that alone the book would be valuable. But it goes beyond criticism to propose practical remedies."—Wendell Berry"An excellent addition to a growing list of books and articles documenting some alarming trends in our ability to produce food. . . . This short but well-documented book deserves broad circulation and public discussion. Its warnings may well be prophecy."—Los Angeles Times
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University of Nebraska Press The Skylark of Space
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Students of early science fiction will welcome the University of Nebraska Press's series Bison Frontiers of Imagination."—Times Literary Supplement
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University of Nebraska Press Wordarrows Native States of Literary Sovereignty
Book SynopsisOffers compelling glimpses of modern Native American life and the different ways that Native Americans and whites interact, fight, and resolve their conflicts.Trade Review“Wordarrows is a milestone in the campaign to make traditional native culture a relevant part of modern life. It represents one man’s attempt to be both meaningful and honest in using his tribal past.”—Antioch Review“Penetrating and thoughtful, this book has value for the student of the psyche of the contemporary American Indian.”—Choice
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University of Nebraska Press Gravity and Grace
Book SynopsisSimone Weil, the French philosopher, political activist, and religious mystic, was little known when she died in 1943. The aphorisms in this book reflect the religious philosophy of Weil's last years. This book shows why critics have called Weil "a great soul who might have become a saint" and "the outsider as saint, in an age of alienation".Trade Review“A book of Pascalian pensees, touching on many phases of the intellectual and spiritual worlds. Written in prose which is as unadorned as a geometry theorem, it bears clear personal traces of the young genius who was half icy intellectual, half mystic.”—New York Times“In these private reflections, at once pregnant and precise, and all springing out of painful depths of experience, mental pride is transmuted into spiritual insight.”—Manchester Guardian
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