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Book SynopsisThe first international English-language publication of Hampate Ba's acclaimed novel.Trade Review"I think this is perhaps the best African novel on colonialism and it draws very richly on various modes of oral literature." Ralph Austen, University of Chicago "It is a wonderful introduction to colonial rule as experienced by Africans, and in particular, to the rule of African middlemen." Martin A. Klein, University of Toronto "The Fortunes of Wangrin is not only a wonderful novel by one of Africa's most renowned intellectuals, it is also literally filled with information about French colonization and its impact on traditional African societies, African resistance and collaboration to colonization, the impact of French education in Africa, and a host of other subjects of interest." Francois Manchuelle, New York UniversityTable of ContentsForewordOverture1. The Birth2. Diagaramba3. First Confrontation4. The Beginning of a Career5. Where the Calamities of Some. . .6. The Storm Breaks7. The Count's Messenger8. The Trial9. The Donkey Who Drank Honey10. Romo's Son and Beautiful Pugubila11. The Death of a Great Chief and What Came Out of It12. The Ambush13. The Calamitous Bird's Eggs14. A Cumbersome Turban15. Where Each Gets His Due16. The Dream of the Fulbe Shepherdess17. Pretty Much in the Lion's Jaws18. Where Wangrin is Off Once Again to a Good Start19. A Profitable Pledge20. The Reconversion21. An Elephant's Tale22. A Disquieting Arrival23. Pretty Doe of the Markets24. Two Birds with One Stone25. A Narrow Escape26. . . . In Which Romo Keeps His Promise. . .and Wangrin His27. A Souvenir That Bears Wangrin's Trademark28. First Warning: The Hausa Geomancer29. Madame White-White30. Second and Third Warnings: A Fatal Oversight and the Sacred Python31. Madame "Good Offices"32. The Irreparable Loss33. Last Warning: The Dove with a Black Ring Circling Half Her Neck34. Philosopher Tramp35. The Three Bloods and Death36. Adieu

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is an impressive and invaluable book, and one I am sure scholars from numerous fields will be citing for years to come. * Music Theory Spectrum *Highly recommended. * Choice *This book puts forth a beautiful account of what it's like to listen to music. -- Elizabeth MargulisOne of the best studies on the role of conceptual metaphor in music comprehension and theory I've ever read. -- Mark Johnson * author (with George Lakoff) of Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Weste *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart One: Theoretical BackgroundIntroduction1. Mimetic Comprehension2. Mimetic Comprehension of Music3. Metaphor and Related Means of ReasoningPart Two: Spatial Conceptions4. Pitch Height5. Temporal Motion and Musical Motion6. Perspectives on Musical MotionPart Three: Beyond Musical Space7. Music and the External Senses8. Musical Affect9. Applications10. Review and ImplicationsAppendix I. Mimetic Subvocalization and Absolute PitchAppendix II. Levels of Abstraction Among MetaphorsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAttractive, accurately rendered collection of 30 floral beauties, with brief captions describing what each flower symbolizes. Includes the anemone (anticipation), buttercup (riches), red rose (romantic love), carnation (fidelity), poppy (extravagance), and 25 others. A treat for colouring book fans, flower lovers, and gardening enthusiasts.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the lives of the world's largest living mammals. Drawing on the latest scientific research, Whales describes these incredible animals' evolution from terrestrial to marine mammals, their life cycle, diversity and distribution, and the ecosystems of which they are a part. Whales highlights the many extraordinary aspects of...Trade ReviewThis remarkable book is a rare beast – packing a blue whale-sized amount of information into a porpoise-compact volume. The authors, all researchers at the highly regarded Sea Mammal Research Unit at University of St Andrews, really know their stuff, and it shows in coverage of a wide range of aspects of whale evolution, ecology and, most fascinating of all, whale culture. In addition, Whales does not flinch from exploring our, at times, shameful relationship with these compelling animals and the seas and rivers in which they live. * BBC Wildlife *Overall, the breadth of information and illustrations are excellent. Although the volume has a broad focus, several characteristics of the biology and behavior of this diverse mammalian group are adequately explored. Finally, by highlighting certain aspects of conducting research on free-ranging whales, readers will come away with an appreciation of the difficulties associated with studying these highly specialized animals, despite the many advances in technology. As such, this book provides a great introduction to the world of whales for general readers as well as university students who may be considering a career in research or conservation of these magnificent creatures. * Quarterly Review of Biology *This book is an intellectual appetizer plate for readers. It surveys many topics on whale evolution, ecology, anatomy, physiology, behavior, and human interactions but only lightly touches each topic. By doing so, the authors provide an introduction to a broad sweep of whale biology without producing a massive, dense tome. * Choice *Table of ContentsWhat is a whale?1. There and back again2. Whales everywhere3. The circle of life4. The greatest free-divers5. Eat and be eaten6. Whale culture7. Changing attitudes8. Changing OceansFurther InformationIndexAcknowledgements

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Book SynopsisStudents begin by copying masterworks, then progress to painting as their skills develop. Aristides uses the works of Old Masters and today's most respected realist artists to demonstrate and teach the principles of realist drawing and painting, taking students step by step through the learning curve yet allowing them to work at their own pace.

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Book SynopsisIn hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshima's Ground Zero, comics have shown a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Hillary Chute explores the ways graphic narratives by diverse artists, including Jacques Callot, Francisco Goya, Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman, and Joe Sacco, document the disasters of war.Trade ReviewThe provocative idea at the heart of Hillary Chute’s Disaster Drawn is that comics should be accepted as a true testament of war in the same way historical writings, documentary films and still photographs have been. She traces the lineage of the artist-reporterback to printmaker Jacques Callot in the 17th century and ends with Coco Wang’s web comics from China, which document catastrophic earthquakes almost before the ground beneath the artist’s feet has stopped reverberating. Meticulously researched and handsomely illustrated with full-color examples of the work under discussion, Chute makes a compelling case…The great strength of comics is the ability to tell in simple, intimate terms what it is to bear witness. Chute has given us a great resource on this history. -- Dmitry Samarov * Chicago Tribune *In Disaster Drawn, Chute offers an elegant aesthetic and theoretical argument for how ‘made-up pictures’ allow us to enter into traumatic historical events, ‘inviting one to look while signaling the difficulty of looking,’ making them not only an accurate form of witness, but an ethical one. -- Elizabeth Hand * Boston Review *Compelling. * New Statesman *An illuminating analysis of graphic narrative’s documentary power… [The medium] turns the reader as well as the artist into a witness of the unspeakable in a manner that often transcends polemics and partisanship. * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *You reach the end of this fascinating study confident that you’ve followed its contours—confident that it has contours you can follow. And then the story explodes all over again, pulling Goya and Superman and Psychoanalysis (the comic book) and Art Spiegelman and everyone else back into a crisis—Charlie Hebdo, and which side are you on?—that starts the story all over again, that makes you feel as if you’re at the beginning of Chute’s tale, with nothing settled and everything up for grabs. -- Greil Marcus, author of Three Songs, Three Singers, Three NationsHillary Chute is the only comics academic I know who pens page-turners, and Disaster Drawn is no exception; Chute writes eloquently and readably about the three artists who most viscerally try to picture the brutality, horror, and inhumanity of humanity with unflinching and indelible moral courage. Disaster Drawn is a consuming dissection of the nature of trauma in visual narrative, and you, the reader, won’t be able to look away. -- Chris Ware, author of Building StoriesHillary Chute’s Disaster Drawn is a necessary book, without question one of the finest scholarly studies of comics that I’ve encountered. To call it a major work in comic studies, though, is setting the bar way too low: this is a book that constitutes a serious intervention in the histories of documentary and reportage. -- Scott Bukatman, Stanford UniversityIn this fiercely ambitious volume, Chute digs deep into the comic form itself, its architecture, its treatment of time, its materiality, and draws from it an understanding of a great artistic effort to capture what we have wrought in our brutal human way. Read Disaster Drawn to understand something original and astonishing in the way that historical memory can deepen through the marks of the hand-drawn line. -- Peter Galison, Harvard UniversityLike her subjects in their interpretations and experiences of mass murder and war, with Disaster Drawn Hillary Chute becomes a compelling witness to the most killing century in history. But she doesn’t simply witness; she sees. And makes us see: the art, the artistry, and the artist. She shows us Goya, George Grosz, Jules Feiffer, R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman on the Holocaust, Joe Sacco on wars in the Middle East and Balkans, and (new to me) Keiji Nakazawa on the atomic bombing of his hometown, Hiroshima, one morning as he was about to enter his schoolhouse at the age of six. In an instant he was protected by a falling wall while the mother of a friend of his, standing a few feet away, became a blackened cinder. We receive Chute’s testimony as if it were the first time we knew any of this. Her chosen illustrations don’t merely accompany her text; they illuminate it. She has the power to move as well as to propel us to fresh thinking about images and their effect on us. Comics, particularly autobiographical comics, deal with time and space in a way that written literature has difficulty doing unless we are dealing with Proust and Joyce. AN INSIGHT ON EVERY PAGE. IT’S FRIGHTENING, IT’S POWERFUL, IT’S ESSENTIAL is what would be said of Disaster Drawn if it were advertised on a billboard. Engaging both literature and history in the unexpected medium of comics, Chute draws her own verbal pictures so effectively she becomes as much an artist as those she is writing about. Her accounts of graphic novels depicting the Holocaust and Hiroshima become so painful it’s necessary to look away at times not only from the images but her words. When Sacco goes to cover the slaughter in the Balkans he is as representational as a photographer, yet he is even more intense and painful because his visual reports contain his consciousness and sensibility so that one feels not only the horror of what he is depicting but also his own horror. Violence, suffering, endurance bring their own catharsis as with all great tragedy. Sophocles would have smiled at Chute. In Disaster Drawn, Hillary Chute not only sees; she becomes a seer. She presents, finally, in her own words, ‘the undimmed force of the hand-drawn image.’ -- Peter Davis, Academy Award–winning filmmaker of Hearts and Minds and author of Girl of My DreamsChute’s work is a magnificently insightful and meticulously researched analysis of the powerful role comics play in witnessing war and trauma…What emerges is a particularly impressive sense of the sustained power of comics and drawing. -- Hans Rollman * PopMatters *Hillary Chute puts forward a convincing and comprehensive argument that comics as a medium are perfectly positioned to act as documentary, as a form of witnessing, as a means of engaging and prodding history (particularly war-generated and traumatic histories). -- James Walker * The Spokesman *

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Book SynopsisIn 1894, a lighthouse keeper named David Lyall arrived on Stephens Island off New Zealand with a cat named Tibbles. In just over a year, the Stephens Island Wren, a rare bird endemic to the island, was rendered extinct. Mounting scientific evidence confirms what many conservationists have suspected for some time--that in the United States alone, frTrade ReviewOne of Forbes.com's 10 Best Conservation and Environment Books of 2016 "We know that nature's theater bristles with industrious carnivores and omnivores--hawks that pluck cardinals right off a bird feeder, squirrels that grab eggs from crows' nests, and crows that grab babies from squirrels' nests. What makes free-ranging cats such an exceptionally dangerous threat to birds and other wildlife? The book describes a number of factors."--Natalie Angier, New York Review of Books "Peter Marra and Chris Santella base their case in the end on an appeal to the scientific evidence, which they set out as calmly as they can... What they fear most, however, is the inaction of ordinary, decent people who have just not grasped how quickly the tapestry of the world's ecology is unravelling before our eyes."--Jeremy Mynott, Times Literary Supplement "Marra and Santella thoughtfully examine the severe ecological damage caused by feral cats and outdoor pet cats. Highly readable... Cat lovers are presented in a sympathetic light throughout, making the book worth reading no matter a reader's position on free-ranging cats."--Publishers Weekly "This deeply researched overview by conservation scientist Peter Marra and writer Chris Santella interlaces discussions of feline domestication and avian conservation with the science of decline and of feline spillover diseases."--Nature "Marra and Santella make an impassioned plea for action in this compelling report on an often overlooked threat."--Scientific American "Cat Wars is a work of commanding reasonableness, with plenty of facts and figures and the testimonies of experts to support its unpalatable conclusions. There are some fascinating digressions, too, including sympathetic profiles of activists on both sides of the debate in the U.S."--The Australian "Cat Wars has a broader, more ecological focus, documenting the global impact of cats on wildlife, both by preying on animals and by transmitting diseases... Marra and Santella explore the solutions (keeping cats indoors, catios--an enclosed area outside the home--and killing strays)... This is an important and eye-opening book that clearly says: 'keep Tiddles a house cat.'"--Adrian Barnett, New Scientist "Cat Wars is valuable that it calls to attention a huge problem (set of problems, really) of which many people have, hitherto, been unaware--or ignored."--10,000 Birds Blog "Cat Wars, a brilliantly crafted book, describes numerous scientific studies that link bird disappearance to free-ranging feral domestic cats."--NSTA Recommends "TNR advocates and birders with outdoor cats are encouraged to read this book."--Birdwatcher's Digest "This necessary book provides the science-based case for removal of free-roaming house cats from our environment... If you are unfamiliar with these important issues, you should find this book a useful starting point."--Gerry Rising, Buffalo Spree "Cat Wars covers not only the data corroborating the problems posed by loose cats but also the people involved in the story. Marra and Santella interview researchers and activists on both sides. The readers learns of efforts to bridge differences between factions, so the massive mortality caused by cats can be effectively reduced. This is a well-written summary of a complicated problem that deserves great attention."--Joel Greenberg, BirdWatching Magazine "In this book, the authors provide a detailed examination of the threats to global biodiversity, the environment and public health posed by free-ranging cats. They describe many scientific studies that use population modelling, feline diseases and extinctions, and they share the history of how small, but extremely vocal, special interest groups successfully prevent any action being taken to deal with the vast population explosions of feral and free-roaming cats. Cat Wars examines this complex global issue and proposes scientifically sound real-world solutions to this problem. This painstakingly researched and readable book is a must-read for all pet owners (whether you have a cat or not) and is an iron-clad argument that the best thing for local wildlife, people and the cats themselves is for cat owners to keep their pets indoors, always."--Forbes.com, a "10 Best Conservation and Environment Books of 2016"Table of Contents1 The Obituary of the Stephens Island Wren 1 2 America's Dairy Land and Its Killing Fields 10 3 The Rise of Bird Lovers and Cat Lovers: The Perfect Storm 29 4 The Science of Decline 49 5 The Zombie Maker: Cats as Agents of Disease 75 6 Taking Aim at the Problem 95 7 Trap-Neuter-Return: A Palatable Solution That Is No Solution At All 121 8 A Landscape with Fewer Free-Ranging Cats: Better for Cats, Better for Birds, Better for People 144 9 What Kind of Nature Awaits? 168 Acknowledgments 179 Notes 181 References 185 Index 201

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Book SynopsisExamines the ways in which the American model is being imposed on the world, and outlines its economic and political consequences.Trade Review"Amin is both a real-world social scientist and a revolutionary socialist." Review of Radical Political EconomyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Liberal Vision of Society 2. The Ideological and Para-Theoretical Foundations of Liberalism 3. The Consequences: Really-Existing Globalized Liberalism 4. The Origins of Liberalism 5. The Challenge of Liberalism Today Works Cited in the Text Index

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Book SynopsisSatan is both a revealing study of the compelling figure of the Devil and an imaginative and persuasive inquiry into the forces that shape a concept and ensure its survival.Trade ReviewDrawing extensively on earlier scholarly literature, as well as his own original research in complex source materials, Russell has offered a coherent account of the development of a tradition in Christian thought that should be of great interest to specialists and nonspecialists alike. Although Russell would be the very last to claim that he can draw out leviathan with a hook, he has competently and diligently drawn out an image of leviathan that takes a respectable place in the literature of early church history. * American Historical Review *Russell has complete mastery of his material, and the book's sweep is grand: a tour of the first five centuries of Christian intellectual history with the spotlight on the villain instead of the hero.... Satan is a valuable introduction to the theological portion of the Western Devil tradition. * Speculum *Table of ContentsPreface1. The Devil2. The Apostolic Fathers3. The Apologetic Fathers and the Gnostics4. Human Sin and Redemption: Irenaeus and Tertullian5. Mercy and Damnation: The Alexandrians6. Dualism and the Desert7. Satan and Saint Augustine8. Conclusion: Satan TodayEssay on the SourcesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDeals with the power of stories to educate and heal the heart, mind, body, and spirit. This book demonstrates how an indigenous knowledge system facilitates a valuable meaning-making process through storywork.Trade Review[The] author’s self-reflection on the multiple roles she balanced as a researcher is appreciated, and her text serves as an excellent testimonial for the efficacy and successes of researchers working collaboratively with indigenous communities. -- M.A. Rinehart, Valdosta State University * Choice, Vol.46, No.01 *Archibald’s research studies how people, including herself, live with their stories; moreover, how people can live well with their stories. […] Here, stories are not material for analysis; they are not folklore with its implication of museum culture, and they are certainly not “data.” Stories take on their own life and become teachers. […] In her spiraling, iterative style, Archibald gets as close as any book I have found to a truly narrative pedagogy, as opposed to a pedagogy of narrative. […] To stay with her writing is to experience how stories work in and on a life. -- Arthur W. Frank, University of Calgary * Canadian Journal of Sociology, Vol.33, No. 3 *Jo-Ann Archibald, Q’um Q’um Xiiem, has gifted us here with a sensitive glimpse into the thoughts of her Sto:lo elders. In doing this, she presents folklorists with a great deal of useful emic information. And she offers guidelines for educators who hope to use story with children. Her elders show us how to not just tell stories … but how to make meaning of the tales through storywork. -- Margaret Read Macdonald * Western Folklore *Table of ContentsPreface1 The Journey Begins2 Coyote Searching for the Bone Needle3 Learning about Storywork from Sto:lo Elders4 The Power of Stories for Educating the Heart5 Storywork in Action6 Storywork Pedagogy7 A Give-AwayNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisOffers a thorough and mathematically rigorous exposition of single-variable calculus for readers with some previous exposure to calculus techniques but not to methods of proof. This book is appropriate for a beginning Honors Calculus course assuming high school calculus or a “bridge course” using basic analysis to illustrate mathematical rigour.Trade ReviewThe introduction of a calculus sequence to the high schools has necessitated the development of a course in college math programs to deal with the students that have taken the high school sequence when they arrive on campus. While some of the students coming out of the high school programs are mathematically very capable, many are weak and are not ready to proceed to the first course taken after a year of calculus. This book was developed as a response to these conditions, it can be considered as a ""calculus with basic analysis"" bridge course. ... Change always produces the need for reaction and that is true in education as well. In this case the author has done an excellent job in creating a text for a course in advanced calculus that could serve as a bridge course for incoming students that have had calculus in high school or those that took calculus years earlier. ..."" Ñ Charles Ashbacher, Journal of Recreational Mathematics

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This long-popular guide uses simple black-and-white pencil drawing illustrations to help beginners to develop their skills and dexterity through a series of short exercises." --Library Journal"...a virtual dictionary of drawing and realted subjects, properly mixed and poured-out in a teaching sequence that works for artists of any age or skill level." --Draw Magazine

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A labor of love.... These letters are gold, the richest Machiavelli vein there is for mining the life and the ideas."—Colin Walters, Washington Times "A marvelous book that gives us, for the first time in English, all the extant personal letters that Machiavelli exchanged with his friends and associates over thirty years.... A major event."—John M. Najemy, Cornell University "Bravo!' to the superb edition Atkinson and Sices have produced.... Should be required reading."—Peter Bondanella, Indiana UniversityTable of ContentsTable of Contents Preface Introduction Letters 1497-1498 1499 1500 1501 1502 1503 1504-1505 1506 1507-1508 1509 1510-1512 1513 1514 1515-1519 1520 1521 1522-1524 1525 1526 1527 Appendix Notes Abbreviations Works Cited List of Correspondence Subject Index

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Book SynopsisSpecific Models Covered:GS750 77-79; GS750L 79-81; GS750E 78-82; GS750T 1982

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Internet Spaceships Are Serious Business is one of the most comprehensive collections of works on EVE Online ever produced, but written in language that is accessible to the uninitiated reader. It captures a side of EVE that is often lost in academic writings, and each chapter stands as a snapshot in time of one of the world’s most unique and well-studied massively multiplayer online games."—Brendan Drain, MMO expert"A book as unique as EVE itself—it will make you think, help you understand a game you may never play, and afford a glimpse onto a less traveled byway of the gaming universe. The roster of authors is delightfully varied, with contributions from archivists, developers, players, PhD students, and researchers, broadening inquiry into a thoughtful, engaging treatment of a cherished game."—Bonnie Nardi, author of My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of “World of Warcraft”*\"By addressing everything from collaboration to conflict, from economics to embodiment, the authors of Internet Spaceships Are Serious Business use the specific case study of EVE Online to investigate how emerging digital technologies reshape selfhood and society."—Tom Boellstorff, author of Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human"This work serves as an excellent consideration of the world of EVE Online for any researcher."—American Journal of PlayTable of ContentsContents Glossary of EVE Online Jargon Introduction Marcus Carter, Kelly Bergstrom, and Darryl Woodford 1. EVE Online for the Uninitiated Kelly Bergstrom and Marcus Carter 2. EVEOnline Is Hard and It Matters Christopher Paul 3. Virtual Interstellar Travel William Sims Bainbridge 4. Universes, Metaverses, and Multiverses Kjartan Pierre Emilsson 5. The Digital Grind: Time and Labor as Resources of War in EVE Online Oskar Milik 6. The Russians Are Coming! Stereotypes and Perceptions of “Russianness” in EVE Online Catherine Goodfellow 7. The Art of Selling Trust Chribba 8. We Play Something Awful: Goon Projects and Pervasive Practice on Online Games Richard Page 9. The Accidental Spymaster Keith Harrison 10. The Evolution of Player Organizations: A Goonswarm Perspective The Mittani (Alexander Gianturco) 11. RIP Vile Rat: Makeshift Memorials in EVE Online Martin R. Gibbs, Marcus Carter, and Joji Mori 12. Imagined Capsuleers: Reframing Discussions about Gender and EVE Online Kelly Bergstrom 13. The Social System in EVE Online Mantou (Zhang Yuzhou) 14. Do EVE Online Players Dream of Icelandic Spaceships? The Role and Mechanisms of Co-creation in CCP’s Success Jedrzej Czarnota 15. EVEOnline as History Nick Webber 16. On the EVE of Preservation: Conserving a Complex Universe Kristin MacDonough, Rebecca Fraimow, Dan Erdman, Kathryn Gronsbell, and Erica Titkemeyer Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis is essentially a book about theory building. Instead of actually presenting theory, it suggests and illustrates a particular way in which the social work profession, or any of the other service professions, might pursue the task of developing theory to refine its mode of practice. While written for every professional, it is directed, in particular, to those most actively engaged in the development and refinement of theory for their profession. It is a personal document in the sense that it is a chronicle of the author's reflections about how a profession might pursue most profitably this aspect of its total function.

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Book SynopsisRadical Hospitality addresses a timely and challenging subject for contemporary philosophy: the ethical responsibility of opening borders, psychic and physical, to the stranger. The book engages urgent moral conversations concerning identity, nationality, immigration, peace, and justice for the work of living together.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why Hospitality Now? | 1 PART I: FOUR FACES OF HOSPITALITY: LINGUISTIC, NARRATIVE, CONFESSIONAL, CARNAL Richard Kearney 1 Linguistic Hospitality: The Risk of Translation | 17 2 Narrative Hospitality: Three Pedagogical Experiments | 24 3 Confessional Hospitality: Translating across Faith Cultures | 43 4 Carnal Hospitality: Gesturing beyond Apartheid | 49 PART II: HOSPITALITY AND MORAL PSYCHOLOGY: EXPLORING THE BORDER BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE Melissa Fitzpatrick 5 Hospitality beyond Borders: The Case of Kant | 61 6 Impossible Hospitality: From Levinas to Arendt | 75 7 Teleological Hospitality: The Case of Contemporary Virtue Ethics | 88 8 Hospitality in the Classroom | 97 Postscript: Hospitality’s New Frontier: The Nonhuman Other 105 Acknowledgments | 111 Notes | 113 Bibliography | 137 Index | 145

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Book SynopsisNSCA's Essentials of Sport Science provides the most contemporary and comprehensive overview of the field of sport science and the role of the sport scientist. It is a primary preparation resource for the Certified Performance and Sport Scientist (CPSS) certification exam.Table of ContentsForeword: Reflections on Sport ScienceMichael H. Stone, PhD, and William J. Kraemer, PhDPart I. Training Theory and ProcessChapter 1. Performance DimensionsNick Winkelman, PhD, and Darcy Norman, PTChapter 2. Training Load ModelStuart Cormack, PhD, and Aaron J. Coutts, PhDChapter 3. Periodization and Programming for Individual SportsG. Gregory Haff, PhDChapter 4. Periodization and Programming for Team SportsMartin Buchheit, PhD, and Paul Laursen, PhDPart II. Needs AnalysisChapter 5. Key Performance IndicatorsMarco Cardinale, PhDChapter 6. Profiling and BenchmarkingMike McGuigan, PhDPart III. Technology and Data PreparationChapter 7. Technological ImplementationLorena Torres Ronda, PhDChapter 8. Data HygieneMatthew C. Varley, PhD, Ric Lovell, PhD, and David Carey, PhDPart IV. External and Internal Load Data CollectionChapter 9. Characteristics of Tracking Systems and Load MonitoringJo Clubb, MSc, and Andrew M. Murray, PhDChapter 10. Analysis of Tracking Systems and Load MonitoringAndrew M. Murray, PhD, and Jo Clubb, MScChapter 11. Kinematics and Gait AnalysisEnda King, PhD, and Chris Richter, PhDChapter 12. Kinetics and Force PlatformsDaniel Cohen, PhD, and Cory Kennedy, MScChapter 13. Strength Tracking and AnalysisJean-Benoît Morin, PhD, and Pierre Samozino, PhDChapter 14. Heart Rate and Heart Rate VariabilityJoel JamiesonChapter 15. Electroencephalography and ElectroneuromyographyRoman N. Fomin, PhD, and Cassandra C. Collins, BSChapter 16. Biomarkers for Health and PerformanceXavier Schelling i del Alcázar, PhD, Julio Calleja-González, PhD, and Nicolás Terrados, MD, PhDChapter 17. Perception of Effort and Subjective MonitoringShaun J. McLaren, PhD, Aaron J. Coutts, PhD, and Franco M. Impellizzeri, PhDPart V. Data Analysis and DeliveryChapter 18. Statistical ModelingMladen Jovanović, Lorena Torres Ronda, PhD, and Duncan N. French, PhDChapter 19. Injury Risk ModelJohann Windt, PhD, and Tim Gabbett, BHSc (Hons), PhDChapter 20. Data Mining and Nonlinear Data AnalysisSam Robertson, PhDChapter 21. Data Delivery and ReportingTyler A. Bosch, PhD, and Jacqueline Tran, PhDChapter 22. Performance Interventions and Operationalizing DataClive Brewer, BSc (Hons), MScPart VI. Special TopicsChapter 23. Recovery and SleepJessica M. Stephens, PhD, and Shona L. Halson, PhDChapter 24. Fueling and NutritionLouise M. Burke, PhD, and Eric S. Rawson, PhDChapter 25. Environmental StressYasuki Sekiguchi, PhD, Courteney L. Benjamin, PhD, and Douglas J. Casa, PhDChapter 26. Psychobiology: Flow State as a Countermeasure to Mental FatigueChris P. Bertram, PhDChapter 27. Neuroscience Approach to PerformanceRoman N. Fomin, PhD, and Cassandra C. Collins, BSChapter 28. Motor PerformanceGabriele Wulf, PhDChapter 29. Sport Science of InjuryDavid Joyce, BPhty (Hons), MPhty (Sports), MSc, and Kay Robinson, BSc (Hons)Part VII. Education and CommunicationChapter 30. Interdisciplinary SupportDuncan N. French, PhDChapter 31. Information DisseminationYann Le Meur, PhD

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Book SynopsisMagic, witches, and demons have drawn interest and fear throughout human history. In this comprehensive primary source reader, Martha Rampton traces the history of our fascination with magic and witchcraft from the first through to the seventeenth century. In over 80 readings presented chronologically, Rampton demonstrates how understandings of and reactions toward magic changed and developed over time, and how these ideas were influenced by various factors such as religion, science, and law. The wide-ranging texts emphasize social history and include early Merovingian law codes, the Picatrix, Lombard’s Sentences, The Golden Legend, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. By presenting a full spectrum of source types including hagiography, law codes, literature, and handbooks, this collection provides readers with a broad view of how magic was understood through the medieval and early modern eras.Rampton’s introduction to the voTrade Review"Anyone looking for significant attention paid to the medieval period, and especially the earlier medieval centuries, will find it here. And for the late medieval and early modern periods, its attention to different kinds of sources, especially its mix of literature and drama along with legal and demonological texts, is a welcome addition." -- Michael D. Bailey, Iowa State University * The Medieval Review *"For several decades now, magic and witchcraft have been the focus of scholarly attention, and Martha Rampton’s reader – a collection of primary texts that prepares the topic in all its breadth for use in the classroom – is a welcome addition. University of Toronto Press has to be thanked for providing teachers, students, and scholars alike with a rich and voluminous source-book, albeit less affordable than one might have hoped. European Magic and Witchcraft presents carefully selected texts, eighty-six examples from very different genres, from biblical times to the early modern period in chronological order. Some of these texts are famous and have had an enormous cultural impact, such as A Midsummer Night’s Dream or Augustine’s City of God, while others are quite rare, such as Alferic of Eynsham (ca. 955–1010) or court records of the use of torture in early modern witchcraft trials." -- Sergius Kodera, University of Vienna * Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Chapter One: Late Classical and Early Christian Archetypes 1. Moses and Aaron Challenge Pharaoh’s Magicians 2. The Pythoness Brings the Dead to Life: The Witch of Endor 3. Odysseus and Circe the Sorceress 4. Medea: The Classic Witch 5. Erictho: Divination through the Dead 6. Simon Magus: Money for Miracles 7. Goddess Diana of the Ephesians Bests the Apostle Paul 8. Hecate and the Chaldean Oracles 9. Magic Transforms One into a Bird, Another into an Ass 10. Justin Martyr and the Fallen Angels 11. The Apostle Peter Bests Simon Magus 12. Antony of the Desert Combats Demons 13. Curse Tablets and Binding Spells 14. Saint Martin Battles with Pagans and Demons 15. Augustine: Demons and Magic in the City of God Chapter Two: Post-Roman Kingdoms of Europe: Traffic with Demons (500–750) 16. Three Post-Roman Law Codes against Malicious Magic 17. Caesarius of Arles Preaches against Magic and Paganism 18. Continuity in Magic Spells 19. A Warning to Peasants about the Evils of Trafficking with Demons 20. Sorcery in Gregory of Tours’s Sixth-Century Gaul 21. Saint Patrick Battles Pagan Magicians 22. Early Medieval Sainthood and Demons: Saint Radegund 23. Isidore of Seville Defines Magic: The Etymologies 24. Penance for Sins of Magic 25. A Demoniac in Early Medieval England: Bede Chapter Three: The Carolingian Dynasty: Demons Cut Down to Size (750–1000) 26. An Eighth-Century List of Pagan Practices 27. Paganism of the Saxons 28. Beowulf Fights the Demons: Grendel, and Grendel’s Mother 29. Agobard of Lyons and Weather Magic 30. Carolingian Catalogue of Magical Acts: Council of Paris 31. Treatise on Magic: Hrabanus Maurus 32. Magic at the Court of Louis the Pious: Paschasius Radbertus 33. The Devil of Kempten and the Villager 34. Marriage and Magic: The Divorce of Lothar 35. Loosed Women and Night Flight: Canon episcopi 36. Anglo-Saxon Healing Cures and Charms 37. Anglo-Saxon Sermon against Augury: Aelfric of Eynsham 38. A Prayer to Mother Earth and Other Charms 39. An Eleventh-Century Penitential: Burchard of Worms Chapter Four: The High Middle Ages: Many Threads (1000–1300) 40. Evil Angels: Lombard’s Sentences 41. Divination and the Court: The Policraticus 42. Lanval and the Fairy Queen: Marie de France 43. The Gentle Werewolf: Marie de France 44. Guide for the Perplexed: Jewish Magic and Maimonides 45. Weather Well and Magic Ring: Chrétien de Troyes 46. Norse Magic: Saga of the Volsungs 47. Magic as a Cautionary Tale: Caesarius of Heisterbach 48. A Saintly Dog and the Changelings 49. Picatrix: Arabic Magic 50. Astronomy: Natural Magic or Necromancy? 51. The Golden Legend: Saints and Devils 52. Heresy versus Sorcery 53. A New Kind of Devil: Thomas Aquinas Chapter Five: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: Diabolism 54. A Priest Dupes His Friend with a Promise of Magic in The Decameron 55. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 56. Key to Occult Mysteries of Solomon 57. Clerical Magic: A Handbook 58. A Warning to the People of Siena to Expunge Witches from the City 59. Trial of Joan of Arc 60. Witch Beliefs Coalesce: Formicarius 61. The Ordinal of Alchemy 62. Natural Magic and Renaissance Humanism: Oration on the Dignity of Man 63. Pope Innocent VIII Empowers the Inquisitors 64. The Witch Hammer Chapter Six: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: The Full Fury of the Witch-Hunts 65. Defending the Harvest: The Cult of the Benandanti 66. In Praise of Natural Magic: Cornelius Agrippa 67. Martin Luther’s Devil 68. Papists, Popedom, and Witchery: John Calvin 69. A Voice of Skepticism from the Medical Profession: Johann Weyer 70. Witch Persecutions in Trier 71. Charms, Tricks, and Day-to-Day Sorcery 72. Demon Mania in France: Jean Bodin 73. Mechanics of Torture: Dr. Fian and Suzanne Gaudry 74. King James and the Witches of North Berwick: “News from Scotland” 75. Skepticism and a Forced Recantation 76. King James I of England: Treatise on Demons and Witchcraft 77. A Midsummer Night’s Dream 78. Shakespeare’s Witches: Macbeth 79. A Jacobean Comedy 80. The Witches’ Sabbath 81. Persecution of the Burgomaster of Bamberg 82. The Witches of Würzburg 83. Witch Panic in Bonn 84. In Defense of the Accused 85. The Demonic Possession of the Nuns of Loudun 86. England’s Witch Finder General Sources Index of Topics

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Book SynopsisElidor Mëhilli has produced a groundbreaking history of communist Albania that illuminates one of Europe's longest but least understood dictatorships. From Stalin to Mao, which is informed throughout by Mëhilli's unprecedented access to previously restricted archives, captures the powerful globalism of post-1945 socialism, as well as the unintended consequences of cross-border exchanges from the Mediterranean to East Asia. After a decade of vigorous borrowing from the Soviet Unionadvisers, factories, school textbooks, urban plansAlbania's party clique switched allegiance to China during the 1960s Sino-Soviet conflict, seeing in Mao's patronage an opportunity to keep Stalinism alive. Mëhilli shows how socialism created a shared transnational material and mental culturestill evident today around Eurasiabut it failed to generate political unity. Combining an analysis of ideology with a sharp sense of geopolitics, he brings into view Fascist Italy's involvement in Albania,Trade ReviewAn important contribution to our understaning of socialist Albania, especially in a transnational context.... An engaging, thought-provoking work that will be of use to historians of the Cold War, communism, Eastern Europe, and Albania for years to come. * H-Net *Mëhilli's case study of Albania under communist rule presents several interesting points.... Albanian communist leaders turned to Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, and China over the decades for patronage and financial support to build up its industries, housing, and infrastructure. Mëhilli effectively uses the evidence of this Soviet material culture and points to the Albanian architects and construction workers who built much of modern Albania. * Choice *Transcending national history, offering glimpses into the lives of party leaders, expatriate experts and peasants and bringing forward many stimulating thoughts, From Stalin to Mao is a significant contribution to the emerging body of scholarship on transnational history of communism. * HSozKult *Mëhilli's book is a crisply written, well organized, and well supported account of a Soviet connection with a greater attraction and then a greater rejection than in the rest of Eastern Europe. * Journal of Modern History *Mëhilli's book is a must read for students of Communism and the Cold War, both between West and East and inside the Eastern bloc. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *Mëhilli has proven himself to be not only a first-rate scholar, but an excellent writer, too. For years to come, From Stalin to Mao will be the definitive work on Albanian economics from 1945 to the end of Marxism in the early 90's. * Slavic and East European Journal *

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Book SynopsisLearn how to navigate the challenging terrain of connecting with a child who is afraid, angry, and/or sad. Framing this work as emotionally responsive teaching, this book expands current conceptualizations of trauma-informed practice to encompass more broadly the relational demands of supporting young children with challenging life circumstances.Table of Contents Contents Foreword Mary Benson McMullen ix Acknowledgments and Dedication  xi Introduction  1 1.  Teaching Children With Messy Lives  7 Developing a Shared Perspective  8 Messy Lives as a Context for Development  11 Trauma Is the Symptom, Not the Problem  14 A Conceptual Framework for Thinking More Deeply  16 Summary  21 2.  Essential Elements of an Emotionally Responsive Teaching Approach  23 Defining Emotionally Responsive Teaching  24 The Essence of Emotionally Responsive Teaching  30 Development and Emotionally Responsive Teaching  33 The Aims of Emotionally Responsive Teaching  37 The Emotionally Responsive Ethic  39 Summary  40 3.  Teaching From Hope Versus Teaching From Fear  43 Self-Fulfilling Expectations  43 Teaching in Treacherous Times  46 We All Teach Our Own Story  57 Summary  66 4.  Reframing Resilience for Children With Messy Lives  69 I Keep Me Safe  70 Development Along Alternative Pathways  71 A Developmental Pathways Approach  74 Reframing Resilience  79 Moving Forward  87 Summary  88 5.  Redefining Trauma: The Embodied Experience of Threat  91 Sinking in the Pool  91 The Embodied Experience of Threat  95 The Stress Response System  100 Differentiating Brief Stress, Adversity, Toxic Stress, and Trauma  107 Summary  110 6.  Too Scared to Learn: The Impact of Fear on Development and Learning  111 A Shift in Worldview  112 Adversity and Learning  118 Summary  137 7.  Cultivating Emotionally Responsive Teaching  139 The Anchors of Emotionally Responsive Teaching  140 Summary  168 8.  The Courage to Care  171 All Children Benefit From Emotionally Responsive Teaching  172 Sustaining the Emotionally Responsive Teacher  176 Summary  185 References  187 Index  199 About the Author  207

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Book SynopsisHistorical Consciousness and Practical Life introduces a novel approach to examining how people construct and employ historical knowledge in their daily lives. In viewing history as an embodied cultural practice that constitutes the background to our meaning-making, the book demonstrates how researchers and others can investigate the ways in which people make sense of time’s flow in their now-moment engagements with the world and use that information to position themselves regarding key social problems with historical roots.The book provides a glimpse at how humans enter historically embedded thinking problems, seeking to resolve them. Paul Zanazanian draws on a study of the community leaders of English-speaking Quebec to illustrate the practical life methodology’s workings. In looking at their different uses of history for strengthening their group’s vitality in the province, he identifies five key stances these leaders employ for positioning th

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Book SynopsisIn Suva, the bustling capital of Fiji, a tropical cyclone is looming. In this city of dazzling contradictions, three strangers are living worlds apart. Hannah is a young Australian expat who volunteers at a local health organization while leading a heady life of house parties and weekend getaways. Isikeli is a teenager from the informal settlement who has given up on his childhood dream of playing rugby and cares for his diabetic grandmother. Rishika is an Indo-Fijian historian who put her career on hold when she got married, only to find that her once compassionate husband has become increasingly estranged. When a brutal murder causes their worlds to collide, this unlikely trio must search for answers. Along the way, they are each forced to confront uncomfortable truths about development, its darker side, and their place within it. Based on a combination of long-term research and lived experience, this compelling ethnographic novel reveals the hidden ways global inequality a

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Book SynopsisReadings for a History of Anthropological Theory curates and collects many of the most important publications of anthropological thought spanning the last hundred years, building a strong foundation in both classical and contemporary theory. The sixth edition includes seventeen new readings, with a sharpened focus on public anthropology, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, linguistic anthropology, archaeology, and the Anthropocene. Each piece of writing is accompanied by a short introduction, key terms, study questions, and further readings that elucidate the original text.On its own or together with A History of Anthropological Theory, sixth edition, this anthology offers an unrivalled introduction to the theory of anthropology that reflects not only its history but also the changing nature of the discipline today.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Part One The Early History of Anthropological Theory Overview 1. Bourgeois and Proletarians Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 2. The Science of Culture Edward Burnett Tylor 3. Ethnical Periods Lewis Henry Morgan 4. General Summary and Conclusion [The Descent of Man] Charles Darwin 5. Introduction [The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life] Émile Durkheim 6. Conclusion [The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies] Marcel Mauss 7. The Sociology of Charismatic Authority Max Weber 8. Nature of the Linguistic Sign and Synchronic and Diachronic Law Ferdinand de Saussure Part Two The Earlier Twentieth Century Overview 9. The Methods of Ethnology Franz Boas 10. Conclusion [Primitive Society] Robert Lowie 11. What Anthropology Is About Alfred Louis Kroeber 12. Introduction [Coming of Age in Samoa] Margaret Mead 13. The Individual and the Pattern of Culture Ruth Benedict 14. The Unconscious Patterning of Behavior in Society Edward Sapir 15. Introduction and Part One: Folk Tales, John and the Frog, Witness of the Johnstown Flood in Heaven [Mules and Men] Zora Neale Hurston 16. Social Structure Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown 17. The Subject, Method, and Scope of This Inquiry [Argonauts of the Western Pacific] Bronislaw Malinowski 18. Model Systems Edmund Leach 19. Rituals of Rebellion in South-East Africa Max Gluckman Part Three The Later Twentieth Century Overview 20. Structuralism and Ecology Claude Lévi-Strauss 21. Introduction [Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo] Mary Douglas 22. Introduction [Islands of History] Marshall Sahlins 23. Componential Analysis and the Study of Meaning Ward H. Goodenough 24. Energy and Tools Leslie White 25. Archaeology as Anthropology Lewis Binford 26. The Epistemology of Cultural Materialism Marvin Harris 27. The New Physical Anthropology Sherwood Washburn 28. Symbols in Ndembu Ritual Victor Turner 29. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture Clifford Geertz 30. Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Anthropology Sally Slocum 31. The Female World of Cards and Holidays: Women, Families, and the Work of Kinship Micaela di Leonardo 32. Introduction [Anthropology & the Colonial Encounter] Talal Asad 33. Knowing the Oriental Edward W. Said 34. Introduction [Europe and the People Without History] Eric R. Wolf 35. Introduction: Toward Ethnographies of Communication Dell Hymes 36. The Subject and Power Michel Foucault 37. Structures, Habitus, and Practices Pierre Bourdieu 38. Partial Truths James Clifford 39. A Crisis of Representation in the Human Sciences George E. Marcus and Michael M.J. Fischer 40. A Critical-Interpretive Approach in Medical Anthropology: Rituals and Routines of Discipline and Descent Margaret Lock and Nancy Scheper-Hughes Part Four The Early Twenty-First Century Overview 41. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy Arjun Appadurai 42. “We’re Here and We’re Queer!”: An Introduction to Studies in Queer Anthropology Michelle Walks 43. David Maybury-Lewis and Cultural Survival: Providing a Model for Public Anthropology, Advocacy, and Collaboration Louise Lamphere 44. Introduction [Other People’s Anthropologies] Aleksandar Bošković and Thomas Hylland Eriksen 45. An Indigenous Feminist’s Take on the Ontological Turn: “Ontology” Is Just Another Word for Colonialism Zoe Todd 46. From Kinship to Link-up: Cell Phones and Social Networking in Jamaica Heather Horst and Daniel Miller 47. Introduction: Contemporary Theoretical Debate in Archaeology [Archaeological Theory Today] Ian Hodder 48. Introduction [Is Science Racist?: Debating Race] Jonathan Marks 49. Earth Stalked by Man Anna Tsing Conclusion Sources Index of Key Words

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Book SynopsisAncient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective-the baffling, fragmented prospect confronting the maze-treader within...Trade Review"An admirably argued, massively informed, and often brilliant book. It will be a widely useful source, and will lead to important new approaches to a whole range of texts and artworks. Doob includes superb new readings of Virgil, Boethius, Dante, and Chaucer." -- Christopher Baswell, Barnard College

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Book SynopsisFinalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in History Winner of Columbia University's 2024 Bancroft Prize in American History Winner of the 2024 Caughey Western History Prize Winner of the 2024 Spur Award Named a Best Civil War Book of 2023 byCivil War Monitor In Continental Reckoning renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the American West and its vital role in the transformation of the nation. In the 1840s, by which time the United States had expanded to the Pacific, what would become the West was home to numerous vibrant Native cultures and vague claims by other nations. Thirty years later it was organized into states and territories and bound into the nation and world by an infrastructure of rails, telegraph wires, and roads and by a racial and ethnic order, with its Indigenous peoples largely dispossessed and confined to reservations. Unprecedented exploration uncovered the West's extraordinary resources, beginning with the discovery of gold in California within days of the United States acquiring the territory following the Mexican-American War. As those resources were developed, often by the most modern methods and through modern corporate enterprise, half of the contiguous United States was physically transformed. Continental Reckoning guides the reader through the rippling, multiplying changes wrought in the western half of the country, arguing that these changes should be given equal billing with the Civil War in this crucial transition of national life. As the West was acquired, integrated into the nation, and made over physically and culturally, the United States shifted onto a course of accelerated economic growth, a racial reordering and redefinition of citizenship, engagement with global revolutions of science and technology, and invigorated involvement with the larger world. The creation of the West and the emergence of modern America were intimately related. Neither can be understood without the other. With masterful prose and a critical eye, West presents a fresh approach to the dawn of the American West, one of the most pivotal periods of American history.Trade Review"By the final chapter of Continental Reckoning, the reader should pause and realize they have read one of the most important contributions to the American historiography published in the past half-century. Historians of America and the West will recognize that Elliott West, one of the most respected scholars in his field the past 40 years, has accomplished a great deal in his career, but will remember Continental Reckoning as his master work, truly a magnum opus of his highly lauded scholarly career."—Stuart Rosebrook, True West"Elliott West has written an engaging and innovative synthesis that will be of interest to all readers of history. It is a gift to anyone who writes lectures; teachers will find illuminating examples, useful metaphors, and an extraordinary amount of data to wield in the service of helping students make sense of the middle decades of the nineteenth century."—Amy Kohout, Missouri Historical Review"With its scope, sophistication, and engaging prose, this marvelous book deserves wide readership."—Sherry L. Smith, South Dakota History"Elliott West's Continental Reckoning vividly shows the importance of looking at the American West when studying the Civil War era. West makes sweeping arguments crucial to advancing Civil War West historiography, and his accessible writing style also makes the read enjoyable for the general public interested in the American West or nineteenth-century U.S. history more broadly. Rather than seeing the West as a "safety valve" for the East, Continental Reckoning demonstrates how the region became inextricably linked to the rise of the modern and robust U.S. nation state."—John R. Legg, Civil War Monitor"The West is a big canvas. West uses brush strokes small and large to depict his engaging and thought-provoking perspective."—Tom Carpenter, RoundUp Magazine"A comprehensive, lucid, and often surprising history of western settlement in America."—Kirkus Reviews, starred"Readers who appreciate history and are privileged by having been born and lived in the Western United States should plan to allocate an appropriate portion of their remaining time to perusal of Continental Reckoning. They will be amazed by the impact which our region has exerted upon the development of both our own country and the rest of today's global community."—J. Kemper Campbell, Lincoln Journal Star"Continental Reckoning is massive and brilliantly constructed, scholarly and literary, meant to be read beyond academic conferences by a public that—in these contentious times—needs to understand America's past."—David Luhrssen, Shepherd Express"Westerners will do well to have this new anthology handy as a standard reference work of the expansionist period."—John Monnett, Denver Posse of Westerners“Encyclopedic in its coverage, wonderfully written, full of revealing details, shrewd and funny in its analysis, Continental Reckoning will become the standard work on the creation of the American West. Elliott West remains astute and fair in covering a place and period often reduced to ideology and polemic. No one knows the nineteenth-century American West better than he does.”—Richard White, author of The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations List of Maps Series Editor’s Introduction, by Richard Etulain Prelude: 773,510,680 Acres Acknowledgments Part 1. Unsettling America 1. The Great Coincidence 2. Division and Multiplication 3. Letting Blood 4. The Horse and the Hammer 5. Conquest in Stutter-Step 6. Carnal Property 7. The Fluid West 8. Continental Reckoning 9. Civil War and the “Indian Problem” Part 2. Things Come Together 10. Iron Bands and Tongues of Fire 11. Connections Real and Imagined 12. Maps 13. The “Science of Man” and the American Sublime 14. The World’s Convention 15. Crew Cultures, Cribs and Schoolhouses, Women on the Fringe Part 3. Worked into Being 16. Cattle and the New America 17. Wind, Fever, and Indians Unhorsed 18. Breaking the Land 19. Domination and Extinction 20. When the West Turned Inside Out 21. Legal Wrestling, the Land Convulsed 22. The Final Undoing 23. Creating the West Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTracing colonialism alongside the history of anticolonial struggles in the Americas, Mary Louise Pratt shows how the turn of the twenty-first century marks a catastrophic turning point in the human and planetary condition.Trade Review"Planetary Longings offers, among other things, a firsthand intellectual history of the past three decades, examining the consequences for thinkers and activists of a newly totalizing capitalism bent on despoiling the earth." -- Kirsten Silva Gruesz * Critical Inquiry *"Mary Louise Pratt is a profound and important thinker and a superb essayist. . . ." -- Ryne Clos * Spectrum Culture *"Planetary Longings is Mary Louise Pratt in her prime. A profound historical thinker, global intellectual, and reader rooted in Latin American studies, Pratt invites us in this book to witness the tumultuous and changing history of Latin America—and with it, crucially, the discipline of Latin American cultural studies—over the past forty years. . . . In this book, the complex intersections between literary criticism, cultural studies, postcolonialism, and sociolinguistics are brought within our reach in readable and vigorous prose, in which a sharp sense of humor is combined with a vibrant and optimistic invitation to read, think, and listen to the forces that move the world." -- Felipe Martínez-Pinzón * A Contracorriente *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Sitting in the Light of the Great Solar TV 1 Part I. Future Tensions 1.Modernity's False Promises 33 2. Why the Virgin of Zapopan Went to Los Angeles 56 3. Mobility and the Politics of Belonging 75 4. Fire, Water, and Wandering Women 90 5. Planetarized Indigeneity 107 6. Anthropocene as Concept and Chronotope 117 7. Mutations of the Contact Zone: Human to More-Than-Human 125 8. Is This Gitmo or Club Med? 137 9. Authoritarianism 2020: Lessons from Chile 144 Part II. Coloniality, Indigeneity, and the Traffic in Meaning 10. The Ethnographer's Arrival 165 11. Rigoberta Menchú and the Geopolitics of Truth 189 12. The Politics of Reenactment 207 13. Translation, Contagion, Infiltration 220 14. Thinking across the Colonial Divide 234 15. The Futurology of Independence 251 16. Remembering Anticolonialism 265 Coda: Airways, the Politics of Breath 276 Notes 281 References 299 Index 323 Publication History 339

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Caputo's major and tremulous work of theopoetics is inspired yet haunted by the name "God," a "focus imaginarius of the apophatic imaginary." While charting with his customary lucidity a vast course through thinkers like Aquinas, Luther, Meister Eckhart, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Tillich, and Derrida, Caputo also devotes considerable attention to Schelling, the apophatic alter ego of Hegel. In so doing, Schelling returns from exile and contributes powerful resources to Caputo's unsettling of the theological imaginary."—Jason M. Wirth, Seattle University, and author of Schelling's Practice of the Wild"Spooky, how Jack Caputo twists beyond theism and atheism into yet another adventure—impossibly lucid, luminous and ever darkly fun—into the abyss of unknowing. He does not light the way but writes it, drawing us into its glowing shadows, its apophatic philosophy, politics and practice. If there is no way out of this spectral "God", this "world without why," we may thank Specters of God for such haunting hospitality."—Catherine Keller, George T Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology, Drew University Theological School. Author of Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary EntanglementTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface: The Apophatic ImaginationIntroduction: Specters of God1. Theopoetics: A Phenomenological GenesisPart One: The Ontotheological Imaginary2. From an Edifying to Anxious Apophatics: Aquinas, Eckhart and Luther3. Hegel at the Foot of the Cross: Understanding the Death of God4. Schelling and the Metaphysics of Evil5. The Philosophical Meaning of Satan6. Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing at All? Schelling and the End of Idealism7. Schelling's Either/Or8. Hegel and Schelling: The Critique and the ScarecrowPart Two: The Hauntological Imaginary9. Theism Transcended: The Post-Theism of Paul Tillich10. Violence and the Unconditional: The Politics of the Apophatic11. Haunting Tillich: Spectralizing the Ground of Being12. The Devil is in the DisseminationPart Three: The Posthuman Imaginary13. Angelology—Posthuman Style: Would You Rather Be a Cyborg, a Posthuman or an Angel?14. Ruinology: Why Will There Be Nothing at All, Rather than Something?15. Axiology: A Mortal God, A World without WhyConclusion: The Name (of) "God"Notes

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Book SynopsisIn writing the life of tobacco in Bulgaria from the late Ottoman period through the years of Communist rule, Neuburger gives us much more than the cultural history of a commodity; she provides a fresh perspective on the genesis of modern Bulgaria itself.Trade ReviewBalkan Smoke places Mary Neuburger squarely at the forefront of the burgeoning field of consumption, commodities, and material culture studies about East-Central Europe.... Neuburger adeptly ties together numerous strands of culture, economics, politics, and ideas into a coherent narrative of the ever-changing and competing expressions of "Bulgaria.' * Ab Imperio *In Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria, Neuburger masterfully demonstrates how the yellow-leafed plant has been at the core of building the historical narrative of modern day Bulgaria. More importantly, it also reveals in a particularly poignant way the complex dynamics of national consumption and global flows of goods and the ideologies they encapsulate.... Neuburger has a keen eye both for factual details and for cultural minutia, which reveals her remarkable ease and extreme, almost native-like, level of comfort and familiarity with the often hidden nuances of Bulgaria's less obvious cultural references. * Consumption Markets & Culture *Mary C. Neuburger's brilliant new book recounts the social life of tobacco in the past two centuries.... It creatively utilizes the extensive Bulgarian literature on the tobacco industry and cultural works on everyday life to produce a highly original account of the making of Bulgarian modernity.... [A] remarkably well-researched and inspiringly written work. * American Historical Review *Neuburger's work sharpens our understandings of Bulgarian economic history.... It is dense stuff, and I am terribly impressed with Neuburger’s ability to bring it all together in a coherent narrative. She has added a new thread to our understanding of the development of modern nationalism. * Slavic Review *One of the strongest contributions of Balkan Smoke is Neuburger's method. She uses tobacco and smoking as a lens through which to rethink the parameters of Bulgarianhistory. In doing so, she argues that tobacco production and consumption spurred deep transformations and brought a modern condition to Bulgaria's tobacco-growing regions.... Tobacco runs through each topic and it is evident that they are all tied to the others in both obvious and hidden ways. And this is precisely where Balkan Smoke shines. * Ab Imperio *This fascinating book explores the history of tobacco and tobacco culture in Bulgaria from the mid-19th century, when the country became partially and then fully independent from the Ottoman Empire, to the postcommunist present. Neuburger... argues convincingly that smoking and the production of tobacco products played an important—if not the key—part in Bulgaria's political, economic; and cultural modernization during this period.... Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *This smart, scrupulous, and elegant volume shows just how much interpretative power and creative reach a carefully executed commodity history can have. Balkan Smoke takes up the story of tobacco in a society that, like no other, has been shaped by the plant's production, distribution, consumption, and incorporation into mass and high culture.... Balkan Smoke is a thoughtful, innovative work of history writing and, in many ways, a valuable, fresh, and highly original contribution not just to national and regional historiography but to European history and economic history more generally, and to the expanding field of commodity studies. * The Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Coffeehouse Babble: Smoking and Sociability in the Long Nineteenth Century2. No Smoke without Fire: Tobacco and Transformation, 1878–19143. From the Orient Express to the Sofia Café: Smoke and Propriety in the Interwar Years4. The Tobacco Fortress: Asenovgrad Krepost and the Politics of Tobacco between the World Wars5. From Leaf to Ash: Jews, Germans, and Bulgarian Gold in the Second World War6. Smoke-Filled Rooms: Places to Light Up in Communist Bulgaria7. Smokes for Big Brother: Bulgartabak and Tobacco under CommunismConclusionNotes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive guide through the contested terrain of outsider art and the related domains of art brut, visionary art, “art of the insane”, and folk art. The book examines the history and primary issues of the field as well as explores the intersection between culture and individual creativity that is at the very heart of outsider art definitions and debates.Trade ReviewLavishly illustrated, many of the images never before seen by the public, this indispensable volume is steeped in details about the lives of outsider and visionary artists. Authoritative, informative, and accessible, this groundbreaking volume is a work of art itself as well as a monumental achievement in scholarship, one that forces us to rethink conventional notions of art and creativity."" - Michael Owen Jones, professor emeritus, Department of World Arts and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles.""By exploring personal histories and traumatic experiences of creative people sometimes living at the fringe of society, Daniel Wojcik brings new insights into the phenomenon of outsider art. This comprehensive study will influence how outsider art is now seen and evaluated; it blurs the boundaries between insiders and outsiders and contributes to our understanding of art today. Engagingly written and wonderfully illustrated - in full color! - this is an essential resource that takes the reader on a mesmerizing and inspiring journey. Where are my paint brushes?"" - Peter Jan Margry, professor of European ethnology, University of Amsterdam.""Wojcik's new book seems destined to become an essential text for understanding the field today. Outsider Art: Visionary Worlds and Trauma now brings a great deal of clarity and understanding not only to one of the major hotbeds of activity in the international art market, but to the creative act itself. It is a must-read for anyone serious about better understanding this fascinating subject."" - Roger Manley, director of the Gregg Museum of Art & Design at North Carolina State University and curator of exhibitions of self-taught art at more than forty other institutions, including the American Visionary Art Museum.""Wojcik's informed writing - demonstrated by an almost encyclopedic knowledge of self-taught and outsider art and history - his original research, his balanced and nuanced thinking, the representative examples he discusses, and his ability to articulate his findings make this book required reading for anyone interested in outsider, self-taught, or contemporary folk art."" - Carol Crown, professor emerita, University of Memphis, and coeditor of Sacred and Profane: Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A New Statesman Essential Non-Fiction Book of 2021""Winner of the PROSE Award in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association of American Publishers""A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""[A] superb new history of infectious disease. Be so grateful you live now!"---David Frum"Magisterial. . . . [Harper’s] mastery of the science is only matched by the ease of his prose. If I were to nominate a book of the year, it would be this one."---Andrew Sullivan, The Dishcast"[A] sweeping masterpiece. . . . It’s difficult for me to think of anyone who will not find something eye-opening and enlightening in the pages of this comprehensive, beautifully written and eloquent book." * Forbes *"Plagues upon the Earth is a remarkable achievement."---Talha Burki, The Lancet"This magnificent book stood out as much for its nuance and academic rigour as it did for its readability." * Inquisitive Biologist *"An ambitious, engaging, and unified history of humanity’s interaction with infectious disease."---Gregory J. Morgan, Science"By integrating history, demography, economics, evolutionary biology and genomics into a seamless narrative, [Harper] does something that I, for one, have never seen before done so eloquently or persuasively: he demonstrates that any thorough understanding of health requires the kind of sweeping perspective that the humanities offers."---Steve Mintz, Inside Higher Ed"Comprehensive."---Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution"A remarkable accomplishment that weaves together microbiology, history, and economics to understand the role of diseases in shaping human history. Harper, an established historian known for his first three books on Rome and late antiquity, has an impressive command of virology, bacteriology, and parasitology as well as history and economics. In 'Plagues Upon the Earth.' he explains all of these clearly and with many arresting turns of phrase and insights."---Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution"Well-conceived. … [Kyle] Harper combs through the literature of history, economics, epidemiology, and other disciplines to deliver a solid study of the role of infectious disease in the human story. ... Harper’s long-view study is a welcome addition to the spate of recent books on epidemic disease." * Kirkus Reviews *"This is a solid book, superbly referenced and interdisciplinary, covering disease from pre-human origins to the present, and making extensive use of published DNA comparisons and descriptions of plagues by historical observers." * Choice *"Completing the reading of this book leaves one with more than a feeling of satisfaction. Admiration for a major task that was written in an engaging style that retains a facile elegance throughout its 700 pages, that presents comprehensive and detailed information as though it were the sort of material that readers come across every day, is what one might not expect, but welcomes, in a serious work of this size."---Ian Lipke, Queensland Reviewers Collective"This timely work is the book of extraordinary brilliance and scope and the most significant in the field since William McNeill’s Plagues and Peoples from the mid-1970s."---David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer"Magisterial." * Prospect *"Plagues Upon the Earth is a highly provoking and enjoyable read. It shows that our success as a species is equally paralleled to the success of pathogens"---Makayla Alderson Fox, World History Encyclopedia

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Stephen Vider’s crisply written, gorgeously illustrated book on queer domesticity traces the transformation of the private sphere over the second half of the twentieth century in the United States. Home-life for LGBTQ people, he argues, evolved from a haven from state-sanctioned homophobia, to a revolutionary alternative to the heteronormative household, before ultimately becoming a homonormative domain entitled to legal protection. Each chapter is fascinating and fresh in its own way, and add up to something more than the sum of its parts: this is an important corrective to a queer historiography that has focused almost entirely on the public sphere." * Susan Stryker, author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution *“The Queerness of Home is a consequential achievement. Like any historian worth their salt, Vider knows how to tell a tale: this book’s prose is witty and clear as a mountain stream. More than that, it makes an irrefutable case that twentieth-century domestic environments have been momentous for LGBTQ individuals in the modern United States.” * Scott Herring, author of The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture *“This strikingly original book recovers the unexpected significance of queer forms of home life to LGBTQ people and politics since the mid-twentieth century. Ranging from the gay marriages and camp cookbooks of the 1950s and 1960s to the communes, queer homeless youth shelters, and lesbian feminist experiments in domestic redesign of the post-Stonewall years, Vider provides new insights into the intimate lives and broadest political claims of queer folk—and the meaning of domesticity itself. Creatively researched, beautifully written, and unfailingly smart, this is a first-rate work of revisionist history.” * George Chauncey, author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 *“An important history of how LGBTQ peoples make and sustain the homes of their choice and fight back against norms that oppress them. Vider reveals the lives, labors, and imaginations of LGBTQ home-makers, whose experiments with queer domesticities unfurl in vivid storytelling and amazing archival photographs.” * Nayan Shah, author of Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West *"Vider’s examination of the recent history of activist domesticity in the United States draws upon an extensive breadth of personal, public, and material sources. In its decade-by-decade chronicle the book discusses efforts to fit into the conformist households of the early Cold War, and examines later struggles to build alternative forms of domesticity, through communal living and rethinking architecture. . . . As well, despite its setting in a time of repression and epidemic, this is not a dark book. LGBTQ agency is at its core, and the narrative is a chronicle of contestation, adaptation, imagination, and, above all, creating community. In the face of hegemonic exclusion and repression, the activists in Vider’s study responded with art and humor and radical caregiving." * Journal of History *"Stephen Vider’s innovative new book, The Queerness of Home, offers a sweeping account of the centrality of the home and homemaking in challenging and renegotiating concepts of gender, sexuality, belonging, citizenship, and family, among many others, in the United States since the mid-twentieth century . . . Vider’s book is a most welcome contribution to many fields." * The Public Historian *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Politics and Performance of Home Part One. Integrations Chapter One. “Something of a Merit Badge”: Lesbian and Gay Marriage and Romantic Adjustment Chapter Two. “Oh Hell, May, Why Don’t You People Have a Cookbook?”: Camp Humor and Gay Domesticity Part Two. Revolutions Chapter Three. “The Ultimate Extension of Gay Community”: Communal Living, Gay Liberation, and the Reinvention of the Household Chapter Four. “Fantasy Is the Beginning of Creation”: Imagining Lesbian Feminist Architecture Part Three. Reforms Chapter Five. “Some Hearts Go Hungering”: Homelessness and the First Wave of LGBTQ Shelter Activism Chapter Six. “Picture a Coalition”: Community Caregiving and the Politics of HIV/AIDS at Home Epilogue: The Futures of the Queer Home Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAn eye-opening analysis of the costs and effects of immigration and immigration policy, both on American life and on new Americans.Trade Review"An excellent book with significant potential impact. The authors have done something quite novel: combined a review of the empirical social science evidence on the costs and benefits of undocumented immigration and the effects of various policies with personal stories about the lives of undocumented immigrants. The stories provoke an emotional, moral response, while the more scientific approach taken by the academic summaries provide evidence and rational calculations of costs and benefits. The writing is clear and propulsive, and the personal narratives lend a sense of urgency to the discussions of policy. If I were teaching a class on immigration economics, I would assign this book."--Megan MacGarvie, Boston University Questrom School of BusinessTable of ContentsPrologue Part One: Arrivals Part Two: Arrests Part Three: Afterward Conclusions Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe newly born League of Nations confronted the post-WWI worldfrom growing stateless populations to the resurgence of right-wing movementsby aiming to create a transnational, cosmopolitan dialogue on justice. As part of these efforts, a veritable army of League personnel set out to shape global public opinion, in favor of the postwar liberal international order. Combining the tools of global intellectual history and cultural history, A Violent Peace reopens the archives of the League to reveal surprising links between the political use of modern information systems and the rise of mass violence in the interwar world. Historian Carolyn N. Biltoft shows how conflicts over truth and power that played out at the League of Nations offer broad insights into the nature of totalitarian regimes and their use of media flows to demonize a whole range of others. An exploration of instability in information systems, the allure of fascism, and the contradictions at the heart of a global modernity, Trade Review"Historians usually remember the League of Nations—if at all—for its failure to prevent World War II. Historian Biltoft has a different, far more interesting story to tell. She examines the League as a creator of the news—even 'truth'—and a restless promotor of liberalism in the increasing illiberal interwar world. In this short but illuminating work, Biltoft argues that the League attempted to 'rebrand the world' to encourage discussion rather than war, provide a forum for the exchange of ideas, and ultimately create a new, healthier—and less violent—international order. . . . For an age still plagued by 'fake news' from Moscow to Florida, this book is required reading. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"This book is short, but its length belies the complexity and range of its ambition. A Violent Peace tackles the technological and cultural ruptures of the interwar era in truly original fashion, making a valuable addition to the growing literature assessing the League in its own right as an experiment in international order." * International Affairs *"Carolyn Biltoft's A Violent Peace provides a useful, timely, and poetic overview of interwar preoccupations with truth and reality, and of their consequences for people's lives then and now. . . . This book offers a compelling picture of the period and the issues under examination and will inspire others to pursue the vital avenues of historical inquiry it undertook. . . . Truly, any reader interested in such debates would find this book useful and likely be impressed by its erudition, clarity, and flair." * Canadian Journal of History *“With bold originality and a keen eye for the telling detail, Biltoft recasts the history of the League of Nations, dedicated to elevating the word over the sword, as a quest for symbolic capital in the chaotic interwar world. Focusing on questions of language, money, and the control of information flows, she shows how the challenges faced by the League continue to bedevil us today.” * Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley *“Fascinating and utterly original, A Violent Peace is an impressive study of superior scholarship. Biltoft offers a fresh perspective on this topic by shifting the lens from an investigation into the geopolitical coordinates of the League of Nations to the more ephemeral but equally important role of media and communication strategies that underlay the project. Accessible to both specialists and generalists, this exciting book will find a wide cross-section of readers in history, critical theory, government, and beyond.” * Ethan Kleinberg, Wesleyan University *Table of ContentsPreface: Truth, Lies, and Violence, Then and Now 1. As Seen at the League of Nations: Global Media, Competing Truths, and the Allure of Fascism 2. Rebranding the World (Picture) 3. On True and False Tongues 4. Fabricating Currencies: Paper, Gold, and Other Facsimiles 5. Fiat Lux? False News and Hidden Flesh 6. The Word and the Sword Revisited Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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