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Book SynopsisAnalyzes the literary, cultural, and ethical effects of six woman writers - Nadezhda Mandel'shtam, Romola Nijinsky, Simone de Beauvoir, Lou Andreas-Salome, Asja Lacis, and Maitreyi Devi - whose lives were twined with the cultural vibrations of their time.

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Book Synopsis"Time Longer than Rope" unearths the ordinary roots of extraordinary change, demonstrating the depth and breadth of black oppositional spirit and activity that preceded the civil rights movement.Trade Review"An exciting and much needed anthology. Collectively, this astute selection of provocative essays and the powerful introduction effectively challenge worn frameworks and outmoded narratives of the civil rights movement. Pushing the time line back to before the Civil War, Charles M. Payne and Adam Green complicate our understanding of how everyday people transformed their own lives and changed this nations history. This splendid volume is a vital contribution to African American history and underscores the importance of dissent in America." -- Darlene Clark Hine,co-author of A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America"An exciting and much needed anthology. Collectively, this astute selection of provocative essays and the powerful introduction effectively challenge worn frameworks and outmoded narratives of the civil rights movement. Pushing the time line back to before the Civil War, Charles M. Payne and Adam Green complicate our understanding of how everyday people transformed their own lives and changed this nations history. This splendid volume is a vital contribution to African American history and underscores the importance of dissent in America." -- Darlene Clark Hine,co-author, A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America"Readers will find this volume a helpful companion to capturing an under explored area of black activism from the slavery era to the mid-twentieth century. These essays are especially helpful in assessing the rural historical experiences of African Americans and advancing our common historical understanding and knowledge on key aspects of this element of the black experience." * The Journal of Southern History *"The essays that make up Time Longer Than Rope skillfully express the variety, depth, and resilience of African Americans resistance in the effort to achieve political freedom and greater economic opportunities and to maintain viable intraracial community associations to fight for equality. A useful tool that will facilitate student awareness of the varied and long-term struggle for black freedom in America." * The Journal of American History *"A comprehensive collection of essays and narratives." * Ebony *

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Book SynopsisAn analysis of intercultural couples in the USTrade Review"Intercultural Couples provides a nuanced and timely book-length study of couples both heterosexual and same sex...Bystydzienski's monograph is an essential contribution to the literature on families and intercultural relations." * International Journal of Comparative Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 The Couples 2 Reinventing Cultural Identity in Intergroup Couple Relationships 3 Differences That Matter Within Couple Relationships 4 Differences That Matter Across Relationships 5 Accommodating Differences Conclusion Methodological Appendix: A Feminist Approach to Interviewing List of Study Participants Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisFrom the rise of Christian monasticism in Egypt and Syria to present day, Christians have argued fiercely about whether monks should work to support themselves. Peter Brown shifts attention from Western to Eastern Christianity, introducing us to this smoldering debate that took place across the entire Middle East from the Euphrates to the Nile.Trade ReviewOne of the most familiar phrases in the New Testament is Jesus's exhortation to forget about earthly riches and instead store up 'treasure in heaven.' Here, Peter Brown uses the phrase to pry open ancient attitudes about the relationship between work, leisure, and piety, and the way Christianity both reflected and threatened long-standing tensions. Treasure in Heaven is wide-ranging, accessible, and highly readable. Someday Brown will write a book that does not stimulate new thinking. But this is not that day, nor is this that book."" — H. A. Drake, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Constantine and the Bishops""The poor were a special focus of early Christianity, but who were they? And what made them so deserving? These questions have preoccupied Peter Brown for more than a decade. After Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire and Through the Eye of a Needle, he turns here to the eastern edges of the Roman Empire and to the ‘holy poor,’ those men and women who deliberately chose poverty in order to be closer to God, and who must therefore be supported by the rest of society. With his accustomed virtuosity Brown reveals hitherto unsuspected tensions between the ‘real poor’ and the ‘holy poor,’ and the anxious questions asked about the value of work, the impact of wealth, and the nature of the ‘angelic life.’ Above all, what did ‘treasure in heaven’ really mean? In the third book of his trilogy, Brown lays bare in vivid and arresting detail the legacies of Syria and Egypt, the variety and contradictions within Christianity, and the intense self-questioning of Christians in the early centuries.""— Dame Averil Cameron, University of Oxford

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Book SynopsisConversing with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, Marisol de la Cadena explores the entanglements and partial connections between indigenous and non-indigenous worlds, and the ways in which indigenous knowing both include and exceed modern and non-modern practices.Trade Review"While theoretically sophisticated, the book’s concrete language and brief introductory asides make it suitable for advanced undergraduates unfamiliar with its core concepts." -- Carwil Bjork-James * Anthropological Quarterly *"Earth Beings is essential reading for those following current research on relational ontologies and the importance of other-than-human contributions to society (ayllu) by encouraging us to think about how beings, places, knowledges, and power interact, particularly in the Peruvian Andes, but in a way that is relevant to much of South America and beyond.... [T]he exceptional ethnographic narratives and the clarity of writing make this a monograph that could be incorporated into a senior undergraduate or, more likely, a graduate level anthropology, geography, environmental studies, political sciences, or Indigenous studies class." -- Katherine MacDonald * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"De la Cadena's Earth Beings reads, from start to finish, as a labor of love. . . . Each page is dense with insights about the intricacies and challenges of collaborative politics." -- Emily Yates-Doerr * Medicine Anthropology Theory *"De la Cadena’s book is an important read and a profound application of contemporary theory to Quechua struggles in South America. It is a moving yet challenging read where the discussions, specifically on cultural politics and representation, can be applied in numerous Indigenous contexts to better transform the relational mode of interactions and divisions between nature, humans and other- than- human entities within a political realm." -- Agnieszka Pawlowska-Mainville * AlterNative *"Earth Beings is a powerful ethnography, the result of more than a decade of fieldwork in the Peruvian Andes.... [T]he reader can visualize the changes in the political opportunities for indigenous peoples in Peru’s political trajectory from liberalism to socialism to, most recently, the neoliberal multiculturalism of the new millennium." -- Anita Carrasco * American Ethnologist *"[T]his book is important and vividly written and deserves to be widely read for how it revalorizes and brings fresh insight to the Andean living earth as a subject of social relations." -- Peter Gose * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *"A remarkable feat of ethnographic writing with a keen linguistic sensitivity and a stunning accomplishment of cultural translation." -- Enrique Mayer * Journal of Anthropological Research *"A remarkable achievement, not only merely in the compelling case it makes for ecologies of nature-humanity practices, but above all, at the level of method and authorship, where it models a concept of anthropology as of colaboring and writing 'from' rather than 'about' a specific place and land." -- Valentina Napolitano * Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory *Table of ContentsForeword xi Preface. Ending This Book without Nazario Turpo xv Story 1. Agreeing to Remember, Translating, and Carefully Co-laboring 1 Interlude 1. Mariano Turpo: A Leader In-Ayllu 35 Story 2. Mariano Engages "the Land Struggle": An Unthinkable Indian Leader 59 Story 3. Mariano's Cosmopolitics: Between Lawyers and Ausangate 91 Story 4. Mariano's Archive: The Eventfulness of the Ahistorical 117 Interlude 2. Nazario Turpo: "The Altomisayuq Who Went to Heaven" 153 Story 5. Chamanismo Andino in the Third Millennium: Multiculturalism Meets Earth-Beings 179 Story 6. A Comedy of Equivocations: Nazario Turpo's Collaboration with the National Musuem of the American Indian 209 Story 7. Munayniyuq: The Owner of the Will (and How to Control That Will) 243 Epilogue. Ethnographic Cosmopolitics 273 Acknowledgments 287 Notes 291 References 303 Index 317

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Book SynopsisWhat road did Americans travel to reach global preeminence? Taking the long historical view, this book demonstrates that wealth, confidence, and leadership were key elements to America's ascent.Trade Review"Should be on the desk of every candidate for national office." - American Historical Review "Explains how a weak and peripheral New World republic turned itself into the preeminent power of the twentieth century." - Foreign Affairs"

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"You don't have to spend years on stage to be good at the art of improvisation. In his new book, Getting to 'Yes, And', improv veteran Bob Kulhan shows you how improvisation techniques can positively impact almost any business situation. Read this intriguing book and get ready to take communication at work to a whole new level."—Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The New One Minute Manager and Collaboration Begins with You"Prescriptive, educational, and funny, this book is filled with disarmingly easy improv techniques to up our game at work. Getting to "Yes and" has earned its place on the bookshelves, desks, and nightstands of savvy business readers. It's Dale Carnegie Training for the 21st century."—Jack Canfield, CEO, The Canfield Training Group and bestselling author of The Success Principles "For years, the business world has echoed 'yes and,' but we were light on details—until now. In a fun romp from Chicago's Second City to Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and beyond, this book threads together improv and such business essentials as negotiation, sales, goal setting, and conflict resolution. Read it, follow it, and you'll get better results, maybe even a few laughs along the way."—Dave Logan, USC Marshall School of Business and bestselling co-author, Tribal Leadership"Improvisation is the key to collaboration and innovation, and Bob Kuhlan is an improv star! This book shows you how to use improvisation for business success. It's filled with specific, practical, actionable advice, and it's lots of fun to read."—Keith Sawyer, author of Group Genius and Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Greater Creativity"Kulhan is an experienced improviser with a deep understanding of the art form. And, he is a talented teacher with years of experience translating the essence of improv into valuable business lessons. His no nonsense (yet entertaining) style is perfect for anyone in either business or improv who wants to bring the two worlds together."—Daniel Klein, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Department of Theater, and d.school"Kulhan was early to the realization that we are constantly innovating in business and in life, and that there is a method to doing it better. He brings very sharp tools to promote collective success, through motivating, making decisions, energizing, building ideas, and managing status differences. Although a key insight in the book is that improvisation isn't synonymous with comedy, nobody will mind that Bob presents these important ideas with a lively and fun way."—Paul Ingram, Columbia Business School"Getting To 'Yes And' is a transformative book. With focus, care, professionalism, and good humor, Kulhan delivers a how-to guide for implementing improvisation in business. At the center, we will definitely be incorporating his techniques into our future programs."—Rick Barrera, COO The Center for Heart Led Leadership and author of Overpromise and Overdeliver"I don't know anyone who likes this more or commits harder than Bob. Bob is an improviser's improviser. Buy this book!"—TJ Jagodowski, Improviser and author of Improvisation at the Speed of Life"When it comes to the application of improv tenets in the business world, there is no one better than Bob Kulhan. Any university, business, and (now) reader is fortunate to have him as their lead facilitator. If I ran the business world, I would insist this book be a part of every curriculum, in every company."—Susan Messing, Instructor and Performer, iO, The Annoyance, and The Second City and Adjunct Professor, DePaul University, The University of Chicago, The School at Steppenwolf, and The World"I have known Bob Kulhan for a damn 20 years. He's a great improviser, a great teacher, and an o.k. guy. His commitment to improvisation is spring loaded and fuel injected. He's super positive (too positive) and rather smart! Read this book because why not?"—Mick Napier, Founder, The Annoyance Theatre and author of Behind the Scenes and Improvise"Bob Kulhan's skills as an improvisational teacher and player offer an insightful and energetic point of view to any group.I have thoroughly enjoyed playing with this dummy for almost twenty years now. And I look forward to many more."—Jack McBrayer, Actor, 30 Rock, The Middle, Wreck-It Ralph"Bob is a thoughtful and caring teacher of improvisation. He's a tireless champion of the art form and he'd stop me from singing his praises if that didn't directly contradict improv's first rule: Acceptance. Deal with it, Bob."—Jordan Klepper, anchor of Comedy Central's The Opposition with Jordan Klepper and former correspondent on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah"Getting to "Yes And" is an eye-opening and innovative business book written by a business person and professor for business people."—Soundview Executive Summaries"It's impossible not to smile when you read this book. Whether it is the 'Eights' exercise or celebrating ridiculous ideas, "Yes And"will remind you how to have fun at work – and as a result I'm convinced your business will be more effective...Can't recommend this book highly enough. It will be a GREAT addition to your bookshelf."—MyBusinessBookClub"Teaching momentary situational analysis, snap decision making and workplace camaraderie makes this book an excellent read for any manager looking to build a great team."— Kelly Gibbons, ForbesTable of ContentsIntroduction: More than One Way to Hit a Piñata 1. Thinking Outside of Thinking Outside of the Box 2. Just Say "Yes, and . . ." 3. I'm with the Brand 4. Energy Independence 5. Teaming Up 6. Must Be Something Ideate 7. Busted 8. Take Me to Your Leadership 9. How to Eat an Elephant 10. And Wait . . . There's More!

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Book SynopsisIt was on July 5, 1943, when Plowman's Folly was first issued, that the author startled a lethargic public, long bemused by the apparently insoluble problem of soil depletion, by saying, simply, “The fact is that no one has ever advanced a scientific reason for plowing.” With the key sentence, he opened a new era.Trade ReviewProbably no book on an agricultural subject has ever prompted so much discussion in this country.""- Louis Bromfield in The Reader's Digest

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Book SynopsisTrade Review" Bound Feet, Young Hands provides a detailed, much-needed analysis of Chinese footbinding and women's labor during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Bossen and Gates break new ground in our understanding of the role and status of women's work during a period of enormous economic, political and cultural change."— Rubie S. Watson, anthropologist and former director of Peabody Museum, Harvard University"Bound Feet, Young Hands represents the most empirically grounded and analytically bold contribution to studies of gender, labor, and economic transformation in imperial China. Based on a staggering volume of surveys, field interviews, and local sources, this meticulously researched volume persuasively illuminates the economic rationale underlying the rise and fall of foot binding, shattering multiple strands of conventional wisdom about the social and cultural milieu of restraining the mobility of young women."—Kellee S. Tsai, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology"[T]his well-written and carefully argued book makes a significant contribution to both women's history and economic history in China. Linking footbinding with women's hand labor, the book brings to light the important yet largely overlooked contributions of women, and especially young girls, to the household economy and to handcraft industry prior to industrialization in China. With this groundbreaking study, images of Chinese women idling with bound feet, which has symbolized women's submission and confinement to domestic labor, should be replaced by images of young girls laboring at textiles and handcrafts for their families and China's commercial economy."—Lihong Shi, Current AnthropologyTable of Contents1. Questions About Footbinding 2. Seeking Answers: Research Methods and Fieldwork 3. North China Plain 4. Northwest China 5. Southwest China 6. Bound Feet Across China.

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Book SynopsisThis approach to anthropology focuses on negotiating the social meanings used in making sense of the world, and on the processes of identification that create the difference between same and other.Trade Review"Like the work of anthropology itself, [An Antyhropology for Contemporaneous Worlds] is difficult but well worth the effort."—Anthropology of Work ReviewTable of ContentsPreface to the English edition An introductory word 1. Who is the other? 2. Others and their meaning 3. The proximal other, or the other next door 4. The others' norm 5. Knowledge and recognition anthropology's meaning and end 6. The conquest of space Conclusion: a changed world, a changed object Notes Complementary sources.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOverall, this is a popular topic well handled and essential for students and scholars across several disciplines. The volume provides a good overview of contemporary Russia, and as scholars we should now consider how else these new avenues of research can be unlocked. -- James C. Pearce - College of the Marshall Islands * The Russian Review *This volume considers the relationship between the history of the Soviet Union and contemporary Russian culture, exploring how cinema, television, music, education and more reflect historical narratives, particularly in relation to Josef Stalin. The contributors contend that 'Russia's inability to fully rewrite Soviet history plays [a] part in its current political agenda'. * Survival *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Revisiting the Future of the Soviet Past and the Memory of Stalinist Repression, by Nanci Adler and Anton Weiss-WendtPart I: The Present Memory of the Past1. Presentism, Politicization of History, and the New Role of the Historian in Russia, by Ivan Kurilla2. Secondhand History: Outsourcing Russia's Past to Kremlin's Proxies, by Anton Weiss-Wendt3. The Soviet Past and the 1945 Victory Cult as Civil Religion in Contemporary Russia, by Nikita Petrov4. Russia as a Bulwark against Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Denial: The Second World War according to Moscow, by Kiril FefermanPart II: Museums, Pop Culture, and Other Memory Battlegrounds5. Keeping the Past in the Past: The Attack on the Perm 36 Gulag Museum and Russian Historical Memory of Soviet Repression, by Steven A. Barnes6. Known and Unknown Soldiers: Remembering Russia's Fallen in the Great Patriotic War, by Johanna Dahlin7. Fighters of the Invisible Front: Re-imaging the Aftermath of the Great Patriotic War in Recent Russian Television Series, by Boris Noordenbos8. War, Cinema, and the Politics of Memory in Putin 2.0 Culture, by Stephen M. NorrisPart III: Remembering and Framing the Soviet Past beyond Russia's Borders9. The 2014 Russian Memory Law in European Context, by Nikolay Koposov10. Tenacious Pasts: Geopolitics and the Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Issues, by George Soroka11. The 1968 Invasion of Czechoslovakia: Return to the Soviet Interpretation, by Štěpán ČernoušekIndex

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Book SynopsisHere for the first time is a stirring collection of rare songs of the Holocaust; songs of resistance, despair, rage, hope and even humour, written in the face of utter evil. The very existence of these songs raises haunting questions. The historical notes and insightful survivor testimony in this groundbreaking volume provide moving answers.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents Foreword Daniel K. Richter Introduction. Places and People Completed by Rodney Hessinger Part I. For the Love of God: Three Colonial Men of Faith Prologue Daniel K. Richter Chapter 1. Anthony Benezet Completed by Jean R. Soderlund Chapter 2. Henry Muhlenberg Completed by Lisa Minardi Chapter 3. William White Completed by Sarah Barringer Gordon Part II. Declaring Independence: Three Revolutionary Wives Prologue C. Dallett Hemphill Chapter 4. Grace Growden Galloway Completed by Judith L. Van Buskirk Chapter 5. Anne Shippen Livingston Completed by Susan Branson Chapter 6. Deborah Norris Logan Completed by Rodney Hessinger Part III. Striving to Succeed: Three "Self-Made Men" in the New Nation Prologue Rodney Hessinger Chapter 7. Charles Willson Peale Completed by Nenette Luarca-Shoaf Chapter 8. Stephen Girard Completed by Brenna O'Rourke Holland Chapter 9. Joseph Hemphill Completed by Sarah K. Rodriguez Part IV. Pursuing an Inclusive America: Three Aspiring Antebellum Lives Prologue Rodney Hessinger Chapter 10. Francis Johnson Completed by Richard S. Newman Chapter 11. Sarah Thorn Tyndale Completed by Susan E. Klepp Chapter 12. William Darrah Kelley Completed by Andrew Shankman Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The breadth of [Vague's] scholarship and sourcing of materials offers lessons of great value to political decision-makers and businesspeople. The stories and brief biographies of characters are amusing but readers should learn from the successes and failures." * The Jerusalem Post *Vague offers a fast-paced and readable chronological survey of American business history that takes note of individuals and companies that have contributed to the nation’s economic development. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisTopographies of Fascism offers the first comprehensive exploration of how Spanish fascist writing essays, speeches, articles, propaganda materials, poems, novels, and memoirs represented and created space from the early 1920s until the late 1950s.Trade Review‘Topographies of Fascism is an original, ambitious, and innovative study which offers fascinating insights into the use and representation of space in Spanish fascism… Only with books like this will the spectre of Spanish fascism be finally exorcised.’ -- Jordi Cornellà * Bulletin of Spanish Studies January 2016 *‘This is a good tool for writers and researchers interested in Spanish Civil War, fascist politics, and literature.’ -- C. Prieto * Choice Magazine, vol 51:06:2014 *Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Note on Translations and Quoted Material Introduction 1. A Politics of Space Concepts of Space Mapping Planning Ordering 2. Morocco: The Forging of a Habitus Colonial Space and Fascism Technologies of Tropological Striation Spatial History and Tropological Striation The Legion: A Pedagogy of the Habitus Places of Radical Evil Warmongering and the Colonization of Spain 3. Spatial Myths Fascist Journeys Habitus and Myth Castile, or the Ur-topia The Telluric Being Rome, Epicentre of a Totalitarian Production of Space Rome, Capital of Spanish Fascism The Grammar of Empire 4. The City Hegemony and the City Spatial Antagonisms and the Rhetoric of Walking The City at War Spatial Form and the Rhetoric of Mapping Into the Battlefield Longing for the City Representing Fascist Urban Space The Performance of Victory 5. Russia: Spectres and Paratopos Returning a Courtesy Call Territorial Alterity and Absolute War The Paratopos The House of the Spectre The Visit The Being-for-War Unforgiving Ghostly Cities Revenants Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of 20 essential books about the Middle East, compiled by the Middle Eastern Studies community at Anhui University in central China"

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Book SynopsisThis original and provocative engagement with Erasmus’ work argues that the Dutch humanist discovered in classical Stoicism several principles which he developed into a paradigm-shifting application of Stoicism to Christianity. Ross Dealy offers novel readings of some lesser and well-known Erasmian texts and presents a detailed discussion of the reception of Stoicism in the Renaissance. In a considered interpretation of Erasmus’ De taedio Iesu, Dealy clearly shows the two-dimensional Stoic elements in Erasmus’ thought from an early time onward. Erasmus’ genuinely philosophical disposition is evidenced in an analysis of his edition of Cicero’s De officiis. Building on stoicism Erasmus shows that Christ’s suffering in Gethsemane was not about the triumph of spirit over flesh but about the simultaneous workings of two opposite but equally essential types of value: on the one side spirit and on the other involuntary and intractableTrade Review‘This meticulous study of 16th century thinking can be dense, but the picture of Erasmus that emerges will prove worth the effort.’ -- D.A. Brown * Choice Magazine vol 55:01:2017 *"The Stoic Origins of Erasmus’ Philosophy of Christ contains many interesting ideas, which Dealy presents in an engaging way and is a welcome addition to the literature. " -- George Lazaroiu * Sixteenth Century Journal vol. 49, no. 1 2018 *"The Stoic Origins of Erasmus’ Philosophy of Christ is a challenging and thought-provoking book. It is a book that goes to the heart of the philosophical subject matter that is everywhere apparent in Erasmus’s writings, but hardly ever studied in serious ways." -- Han van Ruler, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam * Renaissance Quarterly, vol 71 4, Winter 2018 *"The Stoic Origins of Erasmus’ Philosophy of Christ makes an important contribution to Erasmus scholarship through a close reading of two of Erasmus’ early works that are rarely considered alongside one another, the De taedio Iesu and the Enchiridion, in an attempt to trace their considerable Stoic elements."v -- Kirk Essary, University of Western Australia * Erasmus Studies, vol 39 *Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Introduction A Philosophy Beneath The Rhetoric Part I The Fifteenth-Century Background Part Ii Erasmus' Two-Dimensional Stoicism Part Iii Stoic Natural Instinct and Christ's Fear of Death, De Taedio Iesu Part Iv Larger Philosophical Issues Part V Correcting a Thousand Years of Christology Part Vi Beyond Devotionalist Assumptions Part Vii Spiritual Warfare Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRay Didinger opens his lively memoir Finished Business with the Philadelphia Eagles' upset win in Super Bowl LII. When the Eagles finally hoist the Lombardi Trophy, Didinger does his best to straddle the emotions of a working reporter and a long-suffering Philly fan. His ability to do that is why he has built up such a loyal following. Didingerbegan following the Eagles as a kid, hanging out in his grandfather's bar in Southwest Philadelphia. He spent his summers at the team's training camp in Hershey. It was there he met his idol, flanker Tommy McDonald. He would later write a play, Tommy and Me, about their friendship and his efforts to see McDonald enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Didinger has been covering the Eagles as a newspaper columnist or TV analyst since 1970. Over the years, he wrote sports for the Philadelphia Bulletin and the Philadelphia Daily News. He later produced Emmy Awardwinning documentaries for NFL Films before transitioning to sports talk radio an

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Book SynopsisMarina Peterson traces entanglements of environmental noise, atmosphere, sense, and matter that cohere in and through encounters with airport noise at Los Angeles International Airport since the 1960s, showing how noise is central to how we know, feel, and think atmospherically.Trade Review“An exemplary experiment in compositional thinking and writing, Atmospheric Noise buzzes with conceptual and methodological inventiveness. Through the style in which it deftly traces the uneven emergence and refraction of urban noise across archives, concepts, bodies, regulations, and experience, Marina Peterson's book brilliantly performs its own argument about the importance of an ethos of informed listening. Atmospheric Noise should be on the bookshelf of anyone interested in understanding and writing about the atmospheric conditions of worlds.” -- Derek P. McCormack, author of * Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Envelopment *“Writing in and through the movements of people, butterflies, planes, and homes; the shifts in environmental discourse; and varied human-nonhuman entanglements, Marina Peterson brings us a story and a book that will resonate across fields for years to come. Original, compelling, and evocative.” -- Nicole Starosielski, author of * The Undersea Network *"Peterson’s prose is always lyric, tidal almost, but she sacrifices neither scholarly rigor nor theoretical ferocity in her pursuit of how sound gets us into questions, spaces, activities, constructions, and the politics of infrastructure. Atmospheric Noise is the story of a city remade (parts indeed sacrificed) around an airport, flight paths, and racket. It’s also the story of instrumentation, calibration, and how we both measure and experience what we claim to know. It’s a shining example of what, with care, ethnography can be." -- Gretchen Bakke * Public Books *"Peterson conceptualizes the act of listening as an intervention into the atmosphere, which originates these categories and definitions, while sound itself remains immaterial and unquantifiable. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." * Choice *"Atmospheric Noise is an engaging and timely piece of scholarship. At its most successful, the work draws jarring, cacophonous resonances between the science and engineering of acoustics, urban political economy, governmentality, the metaphysics of sound, and the social construction of ecology and environment. It amplifies the possibilities of social science inquiry in its call for attunement to noise, to sound, to an atmospheric sensibility as method." -- Andrew Merrill * Public *"Atmospheric Noise is a rich and complex interrogation of urban noise, and there is much to engage readers interested in sonic philosophy, auditory culture, and histories of acoustics. . . . Atmospheric Noise offers an original account of how the sounds of Los Angeles airport came to shape lives, neighbourhoods, and the urban environment." -- Marie Thompson * Yearbook for Traditional Music *"This study offers researchers in fields including music, sound studies, urban planning, and American studies a model for the possible contributions of new materialism’s methodological assumptions. In doing so it invites readers and researchers to be sensitive to new attunements demanded by the changing (post)human onto-epistemologies supporting our own entanglements with the sonic in music and other regimes of tonality." -- Andrew J. Kluth * Journal of the Society for American Music *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Aerial Attunements 19 2. Noise Annoys 45 3. Environmental Imaginaries 77 4. Murmurs: Experiments in Glitching 105 5. Vibrating Matter 129 6. Indefinite Urbanism 155 Notes 185 References 207 Index 231

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Book SynopsisCharts Robert Crumb's intellectual trajectory and explores the recurring philosophical themes that permeate his depictions of literary and biographical works and the ways he responds to them through innovative, dazzling compositional techniques.

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Book SynopsisIn this follow-up to his critically acclaimed Six Seconds in Dallas, Josiah Thompson reveals major forensic discoveries since 2000 that overturn previously accepted ‘facts’ about the Kennedy assassination. Together they provide what no previous book on the assassination has done - incontrovertible proof that JFK was killed in a crossfire.

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Book SynopsisHow to Feel explores the scientific, physical, emotional, and cultural aspects of touch, reconnecting us to what is arguably our most important sense. Sushma Subramanian introduces readers to the scientists whose groundbreaking research is underscoring the role of touch in our lives.Trade ReviewA fascinating look at one of the most mysterious senses. A great read for anyone who has ever wondered why you feel the way you feel, literally. -- Olga Khazan, author of Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider WorldIn this addictively readable book, Sushma Subramanian explores our vital human sense of touch in terms of history, science, culture, family and most of all humanity. It's a story full of insight and surprise, told by a science writer with a poet's sense of language. Don't miss it. -- Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of AffectionThis book is a wonderful journey into the science of touch. Sushma Subramanian is a great writer who has deeply researched her subject, so the book offers the experience of discovering science with the ease of reading fiction. -- Tiffany M. Field, director of the Touch Research Institute, University of Miami School of MedicineSubramanian brings an intensely personal narrative to the study of touch, with a breadth of coverage and a great balance for scientists and nonscientists alike. -- Robert DeSalle, author of Our Senses: An Immersive ExperienceOf all the senses, touch continues to be the least understood because it has so many components that are difficult to isolate.’ [How to Feel: The Science and Meaning of Touch is a] useful introduction to the culture, mechanics, and consequences of touch. * Booklist *Subramanian is a thoughtful guide. [How to Feel] delivers an eye-opening mix of self-discovery and scientific investigation. * Publishers Weekly *[Subramanian] enjoyably shows through interviews with philosophers, massage therapists, haptic technologists, a man with no sense of touch and others, touch is our least understood sense. * Nature *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Dull: How Our Cultures Lost Touch2. Numb: Life Without Touch3. Mushy: When Sensation Crosses Into Emotion4. Untethered: Will the Body Become Obsolete?5. Softening: Overcoming Touch Aversion6. Boundaries: Knowing Good Touch from Bad7. Slick: How Companies Sell Us Touch8. Haptics: Bringing Touch to Our Technology9. Tactful: Building Machines That Can Touch Us BackConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisHow can religion help to understand and contend with the challenges of climate change? Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworld, edited by David Haberman, presents a unique collection of essays that detail how the effects of human-related climate change are actively reshaping religious ideas and practices, even as religious groups and communities endeavor to bring their traditions to bear on mounting climate challenges. People of faith from the low-lying islands of the South Pacific to the glacial regions of the Himalayas are influencing how their communities understand earthly problems and develop meaningful responses to them. This collection focuses on a variety of different aspects of this critical interaction, including the role of religion in ongoing debates about climate change, religious sources of environmental knowledge and how this knowledge informs community responses to climate change, and the ways that climate change is in turn driving religious change. Trade ReviewThis anthology will be valuable for scholars interested in religion, climate communication, and Indigenous cultures. The book, or selected chapters from it, would be appropriate for upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses in anthropology, area studies, environmental studies, and religion. -- Cybelle Shattuck - Western Michigan University * H-Environment *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Multiple Perspectives on an Increasingly Uncertain WorldRecombinant Responses1. Climate Change Never Travels Alone2. Climate Change, Moral Meteorology and Local Measures at Quyllurit'i, a High Andean Shrine3. Religious Explanations for Coastal Erosion in Narikoso, FijiLocal Knowledge4. "Nature Can Heal Itself"5. Maya Cosmology and Contesting Climate Change in Mesoamerica6. Anthropogenic Climate Change, Anxiety, and the SacredLoss, Anxiety, and Doubt7. The Vanishing of Father White Glacier8. Loss and Recovery in the HimalayasReligious Transformations9. Angry Gods and Raging Rivers10. Recasting the SacredConclusion: Religion and Climate ChangeList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisWith a teeny tiny seed, patience, and a little extra care, a boy and his community turn a parking lot into a thriving community garden.

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Book SynopsisThis book contains an Open Access chapter. In unveiling the realities of how policy is made, this deeply meaningful and thoughtfully constructed collection argues that the formal is only part of the story of policymaking, and thus only part of the solutions it seeks to create.

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Book SynopsisFrom the late nineteenth through most of the twentieth century, the evangelical Protestant Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, created a network of hospitals, schools, orphanages, stores, and industries with the goal of bringing health and organized society to settler fisherfolk and Indigenous populations. This infrastructure also served to support resource extraction of fisheries off Labrador''s coast. In Slow Disturbance Rafico Ruiz engages with the Grenfell Mission to theorize how settler colonialism establishes itself through what he calls infrastructural mediation—the ways in which colonial lifeworlds, subjectivities, and affects come into being through the creation and maintenance of infrastructures. Drawing on archival documents, maps, interviews with municipal officials, teachers, and residents, as well as his field photography, Ruiz shows how the mission''s infrastructural mediation—from its attempts to restructure the local economy to theTrade Review“At this moment of reckoning, where histories of colonial violence and their afterlives in economies of extractivism are at the center of struggle, Slow Disturbance offers a powerful and nuanced account of the infrastructural making of the resource frontier. A must-read for those invested in understanding and transforming settler colonial materialities and ecologies.” -- Deborah Cowen, author of * The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade *“Rafico Ruiz makes a critical contribution to media studies, settler colonial studies, and studies of infrastructure and the environment. A fantastic book.” -- Nicole Starosielski, author of * The Undersea Network *"Slow Disturbance is a valuable and much-needed text that provides thoughtful insights into the ways that resource frontiers are made and enacted through small and slow efforts to sustain settler lives. Ruiz brings a critical eye to the ways that media multiply functions in these colonial projects, opening up space for new approaches to reading colonial archives in relation to their material environments." -- Cameron Butler * Public *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: First Fish, Then Mediation 1 The Way It Was, St. Anthony, 1959 28 1. The Plant 45 Slow Disturbance, "5 Canada" 78 2. Credit and Common Sense 79 The Way It Was, St. Anthony, 2011 111 3. Meta Incognita 120 Slow Disturbance, "Channel 12" 150 4. The Promise of Extraction 153 Slow Disturbance, "Samsung, High Speed Mechanism" 174 The Way It Was, St. Anthony, 1997 176 Notes 181 Bibliography 203 Index 217

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Book SynopsisTells the story of the Palestinian citrus industry from its inception until 1950, tracing the shifting relationship between Palestinian Arabs and Zionist Jews. Kabha and Karlinsky portray the industry's social fabric, detail its economic history, and analyse the conditions that enabled the formation of a unique binational organisation.

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Book SynopsisSerpent River Resurgence tells the story of how the Serpent River Anishinaabek confronted the persistent forces of settler colonialism and the effects of uranium mining at Elliot Lake, Ontario. Drawing on extensive archival sources, oral histories, and newspaper articles, Lianne C. Leddy examines the environmental and political power relationships that affected her homeland in the Cold War period.Focusing on Indigenous-settler relations, the environmental and health consequences of the uranium industry, and the importance of traditional uses of land and what happens when they are compromised, Serpent River Resurgence explores how settler colonialism and Anishinaabe resistance remained potent forces in Indigenous communities throughout the second half of the twentieth century.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Serpent River Anishinaabek before 1950 2. Carving a “Jewel in the Wilderness”: The Establishment of Elliot Lake 3. “It took all the trees”: The Cutler Acid Plant and Its Toxic Legacy 4. “We weren’t supposed to use that water at all!”: Uranium Mining and the Serpent River 5. “Oooh yes, we all went up to Elliot to protest”: Resilience and Resistance at Serpent River First Nation Conclusion Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisGlobalization, climate change, and increased geopolitical competition are having a profound impact on the Arctic, affecting how we understand both sovereignty and security within the region. In Breaking Through, a diverse group of emerging and established scholars examine Arctic sovereignty and security, rarely examined together, and present a theoretically robust study of Arctic sovereignty and security in both historical and contemporary contexts. Throughout the volume, readers will discover fresh perspectives on under-studied dimensions of Arctic sovereignty, including: environmental changes, foreign and security policies, and how Indigenous peoples interact to produce different meanings of sovereignty and security in the Arctic. Drawing on extensive primary and secondary research, Breaking Through offers important and timely conclusions for policymakers, advocates, scholars, and students.Trade Review"The book presents rigorous and thought provoking chapters, making significant contributions about framing of sovereignty and notions of security in countries other than Canada. The book will be of interest to Arctic scholars, particularly in Canada, in addition to less specialized readers interested in Canadian foreign policy or broad regional politics." -- Andrew Chater, Brescia University College * Security Dialogue *Table of ContentsAn Introduction Wilfrid Greaves and P. Whitney Lackenbauer 1. In Search of Polar Sovereignty, 1900–1959 Peter Kikkert 2. The Gentlemen’s Agreement: Sovereignty, Defence, and Canadian–American Diplomacy in the Arctic Adam Lajeunesse 3. Arctic Security and Sovereignty through a Media Lens: From a Pile of Frozen Rocks to the Bottom of the Sea Mathieu Landriault 4. Understanding Arctic Security: A Defence of Traditional Security Analysis Rob Huebert 5. National Security and the High North: Post–Cold War Arctic Security Policy in Norway Wilfrid Greaves 6. Russia and Arctic Security: Inward-Looking Realities Alexander Sergunin 7. Toward a Comprehensive Approach to Canadian Security and Safety in the Arctic P. Whitney Lackenbauer 8. One Arctic? Northern Security in Canada and Norway Andreas Østhagen 9. Understanding the Recent History of Energy Security in the Arctic Petra Dolata 10. Human Insecurities of Marginalized Peoples in the Arctic: The Cost of Arctic and Nordic Exceptionalism Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv 11. Addressing Inequalities in the Arctic: Food Security in Nunavut Natalia Loukacheva 12. The Transformative Power of "Security" Talk Frank Sejersen Afterword: Sovereign Futures in an Insecure Arctic Wilfrid Greaves Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that the work of Theodor W. Adorno is best understood through the lens of his highly suggestive—yet often overlooked—concept of the “uncoercive gaze,” an innovative way of relating to the object of one’s analysis that interweaves critical intimacy and analytic vigilance.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Art of Reading | 1 1. Adorno and the Uncoercive Gaze | 17 2. Buried Possibility: Adorno and Arendt on Tradition | 39 3. The Inheritance of the Constellation: Adorno and Hegel | 70 4. Judging by Refraining from Judgment: Adorno’s Artwork and Its Einordnung | 95 5. The Literary Artwork between Word and Concept: Adorno and Agamben Reading Kafka | 115 6. The Artwork without Cardinal Direction: Notes on Orientation in Adorno | 131 7. False Life, Living On: Adorno with Derrida | 144 Conclusion: A Kind of Leave-Taking | 161 Acknowledgments | 167 Notes | 169 Index | 203

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Book SynopsisExorcism and demonic possession appear as recurrent motifs in early modern Spanish and English literatures. In Exorcism and Its Texts, Hilaire Kallendorf demonstrates how this 'infection' was represented in some thirty works of literature by fifteen different authors, ranging from canonical classics like Shakespeare, Cervantes, Ben Jonson, and Lope de Vega, to obscure works by anonymous writers. From comic and tragic drama to picaresque narrative and eight other genres, possession worked as a paradigm through which authors could convey extraordinary experience, including not only demonic possession but also madness or even murder. The devil was thought to be able to enter the bodily organs and infect memory, imagination, and reason. Some came to believe that possession was tied to enthusiasm, poetic frenzy, prophecy, and genius. Authors often drew upon sensational details of actual exorcisms. In some cases, such as in Shakespeare, curing the body (and the body politic)

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Book SynopsisThe Battle of the Rosebud may well be the largest Indian battle ever fought in the American West. The monumental clash in June 17, 1876 along Rosebud Creek i Shoshone and Crow allies against Sioux and Northern Cheyennes under Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. This book presents the definitive account of this critical battle.

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Book SynopsisOffers a remarkable collection of ninety-two photographic portraits, featuring a selection of the most impressive mathematicians of our time. Acclaimed photographer Mariana Cook captures the exuberance and passion of these brilliant thinkers. The superb images are accompanied by autobiographical texts.Trade ReviewMathematicians, An Outer View of the Inner World, is an irresistible book. It consists of ninety-two positively stunning portraits by Mariana Cook (evidently the last pupil (or protégé) of Ansel Adams) accompanied by brief introspective essays by her subjects on the facing pages...The choice of subjects is outstanding; almost everyone in the mathematical world has met or corresponded with at least some of these representative scholars, and many among the latter are household words. So it is that the personal reflections accompanying the marvelous photographic portraits more often than not come across as chats with friends...This is much more than a coffee-table book." - Michael Berg, MAA ReviewTable of Contents Preface by Mariana Cook Introduction by Robert Clifford Gunning Mathematicians: Portraits Afterword by Brandon Fradd List of Mathematicians

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