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John Wiley & Sons The Shape of Thought Reasoning in the Age of AI
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University of Illinois Press Making the MexiRican City Migration Placemaking
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This is an original, indispensable, and beautifully poetic book that weaves together stories of migration, placemaking, and activism to show how Mexicans and Puerto Ricans made a home in Grand Rapids. With rich oral histories and archival research in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the U.S., Delia Fernández-Jones has written an insightful and inspiring book that makes a vital contribution to fields of Latino and Midwestern history.”--Felipe Hinojosa, author of Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio"Fernández-Jones draws upon both classic texts of Latina/o history and primary sources to develop this passionate, in-depth historical analysis, which contributes significantly to the scholarly literature on Latino communities in the Midwest and is sure to inspire future research in this area. Anyone interested in Chicana/o or ethnic histories of the US will enjoy this book, which should also become a staple in library collections on Chicana/o studies and ethnic studies. Highly recommended." --ChoiceTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: “TRAINED AND TRACTABLE LABOR” CHAPTER 2: “FAMILIES HELPED EACH OTHER” CHAPTER 3: “A GATHERING PLACE” CHAPTER 4: “LATINS WANT PARITY” CHAPTER 5: “NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY” CHAPTER 6: “TANGLED WITH THE POLICE” CHAPTER 7: "JUSTICE FOR OUR KIDS” EPILOGUE BIBLIOGRAPHY
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University of Illinois Press Kelly Reichardt
Book SynopsisTrade Review“The organizational structure is superb, as the concepts they’ve isolated seem excitingly to cut to the heart of Reichardt’s motifs. . . . These pages dazzlingly force their readers-as Reichardt’s films force their viewers their viewers- to reflect on the political implications of our empathy, or lack thereof, to imagine other kinds of relationships beyond empathy and judgment."--Cineaste "Kelly Reichardt remains well-reasoned and persuasive throughout in its detail and conviction, casting a keen eye towards the context of Reichardt's career, both in film and in the wider socio-political landscape. Perhaps most importantly of all, it is a tribute to and analysis of an invaluable, distinctively modern American director." --Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television "Fusco and Seymour's book offers a satisfyingly complex approach to the political import of her [Reichardt's] contributions to contemporary cinema." --ASAP Journal"An engaging and thoughtful book. Fusco and Seymour persuasively use political theory and affect studies to analyze Reichardt's unique deployment of realist traditions and the politics of temporality in her films. The authors' striking insights illuminate the filmmaker's style and her importance not only in contemporary art and indie cinema spheres but for American cinema more broadly."—Elena Gorfinkel, coeditor of Taking Place: Location and the Moving Image
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University of Illinois Press Virgin Crossing Borders
Book SynopsisThe Turkish-language release of Hanne Blank's Virgin: The Untouched History is a politically engaged translation aimed at disrupting Turkey's heteropatriarchal virginity codes. In Virgin Crossing Borders, Emek Ergun maps how she crafted her rendering of the text and draws on her experience and the book's impact to investigate the interventionist power of feminist translation. Ergun's comparative framework reveals translation's potential to facilitate cross-border flows of feminist theories, empower feminist interventions, connect feminist activists across differences and divides, and forge transnational feminist solidarities. As she considers hopeful and woeful pictures of border crossings, Ergun invites readers to revise their views of translation's role in transnational feminism and examine their own potential as ethically and politically responsible agents willing to search for new meanings. Sophisticated and compelling, Virgin Crossing Borders reveals translation's vital role in Trade Review“A beautifully written book that takes the reader on a journey, beginning with the author’s interest in the topic through her struggles to create a translation that will empower and change the lives of her readers and the way they see the world. Ergun makes a convincing case for how essential translation is for transnational feminism and provides a unique, behind-the-scenes look at what translations can do. This book left me feeling inspired and even hopeful--a rare experience in these troubling times.”--Kathy Davis, author of The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels across BordersTable of ContentsForeword AnaLouise Keating Preface: Traveling (with) Books Acknowledgments Introduction: Translation in Feminism / Feminism in Translation Comparative Geohistories of Virginity Re-visioning Virginity in the Rewriting of Virgin Remaking Feminist Subjectivity in Feminist Translation Local Politics of Feminist Translation Feminist Translation as a Praxis of Cross-Border Interconnectivity Imagined Translational Feminist Communities Conclusion: Translation in Transnational/Transnational in Translation Notes Bibliography Index
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MO - University of Illinois Press Black Womens Art Ecosystems Sites of Wellness and SelfCare
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Indiana University Press Foresters Borders and Bark Beetles
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe three environmental policy positions and their exemplary representatives would be enough to turn the study into a cutting edge look at the recent past and present of one of the world's most controversial and at the same time most vulnerable ecosystems. Blavascunas can and wants to do more, namely not only to write ethnographically, but also to convince. It expressly does not absolutize the Kossaks, Szumarskis and Korbels, as would contemporary historical approaches, whose narratives cannot do without heroes and a simple conclusion: for or against the jungle and its preservation or deforestation. But it sets other accents; it is about a mapping of what would be possible outside of this pro-contra dichotomy. . . . Foresters, Borders, and Bark Beetles . . . dares a partisan intervention for the not so human actors in an ancient forest. -- Bruno Arich-Gerz * TEXTEM *Table of Contents1. Puszcza: Of Forests and Time 2. The Forester 3. Scientists and the Communist Past: Syndromes, Disorders, and a Proper Elite 4. Post-peasant Cosmopolitics: Man of the Forest 5. Borderline Engagements: Relict Forest, Relict Communism 6. Resurgence: Outbreaks of Bark Beetle and Right-wing Nationalism 7. Temporal Dimensions: The Past is not Safe at all
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Indiana University Press Deleuze Bergson MerleauPonty
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Expertly detailed by Dorothea Olkowski, this book reveals the profound implication and importance of understandings of ontology, multiplicity, and the sensible on phenomenology."—Gregg Lambert, author of To Have Done with the State of Exception, Syracuse University"Dorothea Olkowski extracts from these three philosophers a sense of how to understand the outcomes and prospects of "continental" metaphysical thought today, avoiding both a logicist or scientific reduction of space, time, and experience to the objective framework and a classically phenomenological or transcendental-idealist location of the basis of metaphysics."—Paul Livingston, author of The Politics of Logic, The University of New Mexico"In this deeply original study, Dorothea Olkowski gives a lucid and erudite version of the ideas connecting Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty and Peirce. Surprisingly, yet convincingly, complex arguments about formalism and logic explain why they respond differently to the problem of the relation of thought to life."—James Williams, Deakin University"Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty offers a fresh, cutting-edge, and profoundly original examination of the complex relations between Deleuze, his inspiration Bergson, and his seeming "rival" Merleau-Ponty. Olkowski adeptly weaves through disparate domains – including aesthetics, physics, logic, philosophy of time, semiotics, mathematics, pragmatics, metaphysics, and phenomenology – to ultimately pave a way to address and answer the question: can philosophy itself become something new? Beautifully written, inspiring, and utterly compelling, Olkowski's book makes great advances in our understanding of these thinkers, all while proving exciting and enjoyable to read."—Corry Shores, author of The Logic of Gilles Deleuze: Basic Principles"In her most recent opus, Dorothea E. Olkowski brilliantly takes her readers on a journey in the realms of arts and sciences that leads to the Cosmos in the company of the key figures of contemporary continental philosophy. A must for an insightful exploration of Deleuze/Guattari's pragmatic thinking and its interconnections with Bergson and Merleau-Ponty."—Alain Beaulieu, Laurentian UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty1. Naturalism, Formalism, Phenomenology, and Semiology in Postmodern Philosophy2. Deleuze and Guattari's Critique of Logic3. Bergson and Bergsonism4. Duration, Motion, and Temporalization: Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty5. Phenomenology and the Event: Merleau-Ponty's Radical Concepts6. The Philosophy of the Event: The Dark Precursor, the Chaos, and the CosmosBibliographyIndex
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MH - Indiana University Press Glocalized Security
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MH - Indiana University Press Vigils and Nocturne Black Notebooks 1952531957
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Indiana University Press To Write Like a Woman
Book SynopsisJoanna Russ's classic essays on science fiction and feminism.Table of ContentsPart One1. Towards an Aesthetic of Science Fiction2. Speculations: The Subjunctivity of Science Fiction3. SF and Technology as Mystification4. Amor Vincit Foeminam: The Battle of the Sexes in science Fiction5. On the Fascination of Horror Stories, Including Lovecraft's6. A Boy and His Dog: The Final SolutionPart Two7. What Can a Heroine Do? or Why Women Can't Write8. Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic9. On mary Wollstonecraft Shelley10. Recent Feminist Utopias11. To Write "Like a Woman": Transformations of Identity in the Work of Willa Cather12. On "The Yellow Wallpaper"13. Is "Smashing" Erotic?14. Letter to Susan Koppelman
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Indiana University Press Fashion in Film
Book SynopsisOff the screen and onto the runway!Trade ReviewFashion in Film is a recommended pick for arts collections strong in fashion as well as film libraries. * Midwest Book Review *The individual essays work together effectively and are, for the most part, free of the jargon that sometimes mars both film and cultural analyses. . . . Recommended.November 2011 * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Fashion Shows / Adrienne MunichPart 1. Fashioning Film 1. Costume Design, or, What Is Fashion in Film? / Drake Stutesman 2. What to Wear in a Vampire Film / Mary Ann Caws 3. Noir Fashion and Noir as Fashion / Ula Lukszo 4. Surface, Fabric, Weave: The Fashioned World of Wong Kar-wai / Giuliana BrunoPart 2. Filming Fashion 5. The Walkies: Early French Fashion Shows as a Cinema of Attractions / Caroline Evans 6. Wanting to Wear Seeing: Gilbert Adrian at MGM / Jane M. Gaines 7. "It will be a magnificent obsession": Femininity, Desire, and the New Look in 1950s Hollywood Melodrama / Stella Bruzzi 8. Adornment in the Afterlife of Victorian Fashion / Maura Spiegel 9. Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette: Costumes, Girl Power, and Feminism / Diana DiamondPart 3. Fashioning National Identities 10. Slave to Fashion: Maculinity, Suits, and the Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema / Jacqueline Reich 11. The Stars and Stripes in Fashion Films / Adrienne Munich 12. Does Dress Tell the Nation's Story? Fashion, History, and Nation in the Films of Fassbinder / Kristin Hole 13. Subversive Habits: Minority Women in Mani Ratnam's Roja and Dil Se / Sarah BerryPart 4. Epilogue: After Fashion 14. Un-Fashionable Age: Clothing and Unclothing the Older Woman's Body on Screen / E. Ann KaplanList of ContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Hölderlins Hymn The Ister
Book SynopsisReadings of Germany's leading Romantic poet by Germany's foremost 20th-century philosopherTrade ReviewHeidegger's reading of 'The Ister' is thoughtful and rich. It provides his readers with the tools to build on his interpretation and to correct any missteps without doing violence to the whole. * Review of Metaphysics *Table of ContentsTranslators' ForewordPart One: Poetizing the Essence of the Rivers The Isther Hymn1. The theme of the lecture course: remarks on Holderlin's hymnal poetry2. Hymnal poetry as poetizing the essence of the riversReview3. The metaphysical interpretation of art4. Holderlin's poetry as not concerned with images in a symbolic or metaphysical sense. The concealed essence of the river5. The river as the locality of human abodeReview6. The rivers as "vanishing" and "full of intimation" in "voice of the People"Review7. The river as the locality of journeying and the journeying of locality8. The questionableness of the metaphysical representation of space and time9. Becoming homely as the care of Holderlin's poetry—the encounter between the foreign and one's own as the fundamental truth of history—Holderlin's dialogue with Pindar and SophoclesPart Two: The Greek Interpretation of Human Beings in Sophocles' Antigone10. The human being: the uncanniest of the uncanny. (The entry song of the chorus of elders and the first stationary song)Review11. The poetic dialogue between Holderlin and Sophocles12. The meaning of (Explication of the commencement of the choral ode)Review13. The uncanny as the ground of human beings. (Continued explication ofReview14. Further essential determinations of the human beingReview15. Continued explication of the essence of the 16. The expulsion of the human being as the most uncanny being. (The relation of the closing words to the introductory words of the choral song)Review17. The introductory dialogue between Antigone and Ismene18. The hearth as being. (Renewed meditation on the commencement of the choral ode and on the closing words)Review19. Continued discussion of the hearth as being20. Becoming homely in being unhomely—the ambiguity of being unhomely. The truth of the choral ode as the innermost middle of the tragedy.Part Three: Holderlin's Poetizing of the Essence of The Poet as Demigod21. Holderlin's river poetry and the choral ode from Sophocles—a historical becoming homely in each case22. The historically grounding spirit. Explication of the lines: "namely at home is spirit not at the commencement, not at the source. The home consumes it. Colony, and bold forgetting spirit loves. Our flowers and the shades of our woods gladden the one who languishes. The besouler would almost be scorched"23. Poetizing the essence of poetry—the poetic spirit as the spirit of the river. The holy as that which is to be poetized24. The rivers as the poets who found the poetic, upon whose ground human beings dwell25. The poet as the enigmatic "sign" who lets appear that which is to be shown. The holy as the fire that ignites the poet. The meaning of naming the gods.26. Poetizing founding builds the stairs upon which the heavenly descendConcluding Remark—"Is There a Measure on Earth?Editor's EpilogueTranslators' NotesGlossaryEnglish-GermanGerman-English
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Indiana University Press Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy
Book SynopsisPresents Martin Heidegger's important 1924 Marburg lectures that anticipate much of the revolutionary thinking which he subsequently articulated in "Being and Time". This book interprets Aristotle's "Rhetoric" and looks at the Greek notion of pathos.Trade ReviewWe . . . have every reason to thank the translators for undertaking one of the most major Heidegger works to be published in recent years. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *This text will be of vital interest to scholars interested in the genesis of Being and Time and Heidegger's early formulations of its central arguments in the 1920s. . . . [A]n important addition to Heidegger's works on Aristotle available in English.Vol. 48, No. 3, July 2010 * Journal of the History of Philosophy *This set of lectures from 1924 offers a refreshing and productive picture of Aristotle. . . . Heidegger opens up possibilities in these lectures for reading philosophy and for putting our thought in touch with the concrete. * Philosophy in Review *Table of ContentsTranslator's ForewordPRELIMINARY REMARKSPART ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO ANCIENT PHILOSOPHYPART TWO THE MOST IMPORTANT GREEK THINKERS: THEIR QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSSECTION ONE Philosophy up to PlatoSECTION TWO Plato's philosophySECTION THREEAristotle's philosophyAPPENDICESSupplementary TextsExcerpts from the Mörchen TranscriptionBröcker TranscriptionEditor's AfterwordGreek-English Glossary
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MR - University of Notre Dame Press MarieDominique Chenu
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Pennsylvania State University Press Gender Violence Art and the Viewer An
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Penn State University Global Germany Circa 1800
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Penn State University Chaucer and Trauma
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University of Texas Press Princess Priestess Poet
Book SynopsisThe first collection of original translations of all forty-two temple hymns of Enheduanna, the world’s earliest known writer.Trade Review"Meador succeeds in presenting very unusual poetic material (translated beautifully) and in providing historical and cultural material that is still, alas, not well known to modern readers. [This work] is exceptional in succeeding at these difficult purposes.";oJohn Maier, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus of English, SUNY College at BrockportTable of Contents Foreword by John Maier Acknowledgments A Word about the Translation Abbreviations I. Princess II. Priestess III. Poet IV. Hymn to Enki's Temple at Eridu 1. The Eridu Temple of Enki V. Hymns to the Nippur Deities 2. The Nippur Temple of Enlil 3. The Nippur Temple of Ninlil 4. The Nippur Temple of Nusku 5. The Nippur Temple of Ninurta 6. The Nippur Temple of Shuzianna 7. The Kesh Temple of Ninhursag VI. Hymns to Temples In and Near Ur 8. The Ur Temple of Nanna 9. The Ur Temple of Shulgi 10. The Kuar Temple of Asarluhi 11. The Kiabrig Temple of Ningublam 12. The Gaesh Temple of Nanna VII. Hymns to Temples in the Central Lowlands 13. The Larsa Temple of Utu 14. The Enegi Temple of Ninazu 15. The Gishbanda Temple of Ningishzida 16. The Uruk Temple of Inanna 17. The Badtibira Temple of Dumuzi 18. The Akkil Temple of Ninshubur 19. The Murum Temple of Ningirin VIII. Hymns to Temples in the Lagash Territory 20. The Lagash Temple of Ningirsu 21. The Uruku Temple of Bau 22. The Sirara Temple of Nanshe 23. The Guabba Temple of Ninmar 24. The Kinirsha Temple of Dumuzi-abzu IX. Hymns to Temples in the Umma Region 25. The Umma Temple of Shara 26. The Zabalam Temple of Inanna 27. The Karkara Temple of Ishkur 28. The Temple at Ses-Dù 29. The Adab Temple of Ninhursag 30. The Isin Temple of Ninisina X. Hymns to Temples in Kazallu and Marad 31. The Kazallu Temple of Numushda 32. The Marda Temple of Lugalmarda XI. Hymns to Temples in Der and Esnunna 33. The Der Temple of Ishtaran 34. The Eshnunna Temple of Ninazu XII. Hymns to Temples in and around Akkad 35. The Kish Temple of Zababa 36. The Kutha Temple of Nergal 37. The Urum Temple of Nanna 38. The Sippar Temple of Utu 39. The Hiza Temple of Ninhursag 40. The Akkad Temple of Inanna 41. The Agade Temple of Aba XIII. Nisaba's Temple at Eresh 42. The Eresh Temple of Nisaba XIV. Conclusion: Enheduanna's Gift Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Wisconsin Press Unswerving
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John Wiley & Sons World of Dew
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John Wiley & Sons Blood Harmony
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The University of Michigan Press Shaping the Future of Power Knowledge Production
Book SynopsisShows that foreign policy encounters between rising powers and Global South states do not necessarily exhibit the same logics, behaviours, or investment strategies of Euro-American hegemons. Instead, they have distinctive features that require new theoretical frameworks for analysis.
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University of California Press Dictee
Book SynopsisTrade Review"With the original cover and high-quality interior layout as Cha had designed them, this [restored edition] is the most aesthetically appealing edition of the five that have been produced." * Asian Review of Books *Table of ContentsContents CLIO HISTORY CALLIOPE EPIC POETRY URANIA ASTRONOMY MELPOMENE TRAGEDY ERATO LOVE POETRY ELITERE LYRIC POETRY THALIA COMEDY TERPSICHORE CHORAL DANCE POLYMNIA SACRED POETRY
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Princeton University Press Walden
Book SynopsisOne of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. This edition--introduced by noted American writer John Updike--celebrates the perennial importance of a classic work, originally published in 1854. Much of Walden's matTrade Review"Walden is a self-help book, perhaps the ultimate self-help book, urging us to show up for our own lives, to have the courage to find our own convictions and to try to live them out... [Thoreau is] a writer of immense humanity, vitality and humor... One hundred fifty years after its publication, Walden also remains a practical, usable manual on how to lead a good, and just life... At its core, Walden is about the project of personal freedom, self-emancipation, which is where all pursuits of freedom must start."--Robert D. Richardson, Smithsonian Magazine "Each [volume] is preceded by a substantive, lively and idiosyncratic essay... Together, the essays are a mini-course in Thoreau and the trends he launched in American thought."--Nancy Szokan, Washington Post Book WorldTable of ContentsIntroduction by John Updike ix Economy 3 Where I Lived, and What I lived For 81 Reading 99 Sounds 111 Solitude 129 Visitors 140 The Bean-Field 155 The Village 167 The Ponds 173 Baker farm 201 Higher Laws 210 Brute Neighbors 223 House-Warming 238 Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors 256 Winter Animals 271 The Pond in Winter 282 Spring 299 Conclusion 320 Index by Paul O. Williams 335
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Princeton University Press Living Matter Seeking New Physics in the Biological World
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Princeton University Press What Is Global History
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive overview of the innovative new discipline of global historyUntil very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals why the discipline of global history has emerged as the most dynamic and innovative field in historyone that takes the connectedness of the world as its point of departure, and that poses a fundamental challenge to the premises and methods of history as we know it.What Is Global History? provides a comprehensive overview of this exciting new approach to history. The book addresses some of the biggest questions the discipline will face in the twenty-first century: How does global history differ from other interpretations of world history? How do we write a global history that is Trade Review"Conrad makes a case for global history as a self-consciously political and ethical enterprise through an enjoyable synthesis of what has to date been a diffuse, even incoherent field. A must read for anyone attempting to write or read global history."--ChoiceTable of Contents1 Introduction 1 2 A short history of thinking globally 17 3 Competing approaches 37 4 Global history as a distinct approach 62 5 Global history and forms of integration 90 6 Space in global history 115 7 Time in global history 141 8 Positionality and centered approaches 162 9 World-making and the concepts of global history 185 10 Global history for whom? The politics of global history 205 Acknowledgments 237 Notes 239 Index 283
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Princeton University Press Liberalism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Government & Politics, Association of American Publishers""A richly informative historical tour of liberal leaders and concepts. . . . [Fawcett] takes a commendably liberal approach."---Alan Wolfe, New York Times Book Review"Excellent. . . . What Fawcett clearly and compellingly shows is that the relationship of capitalism to the state, of economics to politics, should be at the heart of any history of liberal ideas. Whether you take his version as a story about liberalism's realist adaptability or its counterrevolutionary intent, it's a fitting one for a moment in which capitalism and political economy are back on the agenda."---Katrina Forrester, The Nation"Fawcett's workmanlike history of the bundle of ideas and practices that liberals have espoused since the Spanish liberales coined the term after the Napoleonic wars is an excellent guide to liberalism's rise and fall."---David Marquand, New Republic"[A] comprehensive, quirky, scholarly and personal exploration of one of the dominant ideas in political discourse. . . . This is a phenomenal work of research and synthesis. . . . A pool of profound, rigorous research and thought that has no shallow end." * Kirkus Reviews *"[Liberalism] confirms the virtues of the disciplined generalist's approach to the exploration of politics. Deftly combining history, economic thought, and political theory, Fawcett has produced the sort of synoptic work that in our era is increasingly unlikely to come from universities. . . . [It] not only draws on the practicing journalist's close observation of political affairs but also the educated person of letters' facility across many disciplines. The result is an engrossing narrative of liberalism's dramatic career--often lustrous but also marked by its share of delusion, hypocrisy, hubris, and tragedy."---Peter Berkowitz, Real Clear Politics"Liberalism by Edmund Fawcett is not only a gripping piece of intellectual history, it also equips the reader to understand today's threats--and how they might be withstood. . . . Liberalism is indeed under siege. Those who would fortify the walls would do well to study the foundations. Mr Fawcett's book offers an admirable archaeology." * Economist *"A book so good I want to read it again. . . . An intellectual page-turner. . . . [A] seamless mix of philosophy, history, biography and history of ideas."---David Goodhart, Standpoint"Fawcett draws on the experiences and ideas of dozen of thinkers and politicians in an informative, lively, and provocative history of a political tradition he deems 'worth standing up for.' . . . Fawcett's book is an immensely interesting, informative, and important assessment of liberalism. . . . Liberalism is as relevant as ever, Fawcett concludes, passionately and persuasively."---Glenn C. Altschuler, Huffington Post"[An] impressive account of the 'life of an idea.' . . . One of the many virtues of Fawcett's unfailingly stimulating book is that he makes you look past the misleading labels with which we characterise political argument. For anyone interested in the history of the ideas that have shaped our society, his book is essential reading."---Simon Shaw, Mail on Sunday"Magnificent."---Bruce Edward Walker, Morning Sun"Fawcett has written a marvelous book. . . . His erudition would be daunting if he didn't write with such verve. . . . It's a pleasure."---Clive Crook, Bloomberg View"As Fawcett's compelling history reveals, the twentieth century turned out to be much more unstable and dangerous than the early liberals anticipated and has forced liberals ever since to temper their expectations for human betterment with a world-weary search for small steps that can keep the liberal international system on an upward trajectory." * Foreign Affairs *"Liberalism is an important and worthwhile book."---Walter Moss, History News Network"This is a good and well-written book. . . . It is wide-ranging, informative, and independent in its judgments."---James Kalb, Chronicles"Fawcett expertly reveals [liberalism's] evolution, dead-ends, and permutations. A sprawling yarn that somehow remains utterly coherent and on-point, this is history at its very best."---Jeff Bloodworth, Gannon University, Cercles"[A] felicitous combination of wit and erudition." * Choice *"In this remarkable book, Edmund Fawcett sets out a helpful characterization of liberalism as it has flourished in Europe and America since the 1830s."---Jeremy Waldron, The Guardian"A brilliant book; if you have one book on Liberalism in your library . . . this should be it."---Stewart Rayment, Liberator"A magisterial history of liberalism."---Sebastian Mallaby, , Washington Post"The central idea of liberalism is the primacy of the individual rather than the collective. But in his brilliant history, Liberalism: the Life of an Idea, Edmund Fawcett makes clear that liberalism involves four other ideas: (1) the inescapability of conflict, (2) distrust of power, (3) faith in progress, (4) civic respect." * The Economist *"[An] excellent history of the subject." * The Economist *
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Princeton University Press Anxiety A Philosophical Guide
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Princeton University Press Waterloo Sunrise
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Daily Telegraph Best History Book of the Year""It is one of the pleasures of Waterloo Sunrise that it leaps from race and urban reorganization to fashion and fun. Mr. Davis is a wizard of the archives. The general reader will delight in his excavation of local newspapers in pursuit of treasures that illuminate whatever topic is under discussion."---James Campbell, Wall Street Journal"John Davis charts the complexities of these important decades in London’s recent history with great brilliance. . . . A sure-footed and unrivalled guide."---Jerry White, Times Literary Supplement"Davis is a magnificent tour guide for the world he has reconstructed. . . . He shows us how London stopped being so boring, what we gained and what we lost."---Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, London Review of Books"Entertaining and affecting."---John Gapper, Financial Times"This is an engrossing, scholarly account of a time when London was in transformation . . . and one that will interest Londoners and non-Londoners alike."---Martin Chilton, The Independent"A beautifully written account of the arrival of trattorias, Carnaby Street, tower blocks and gentrification, as the capital was developed after the destruction of the war."---Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph"Like the Kinks classic to which the title playfully alludes, Waterloo Sunrise is infectious, full of human detail, and generous in its narrative sweep."---Matthew d’Ancona, Tortoise Media"Davis weaves two decades of social, physical, economic, cultural, and political change into a coherent tapestry. . . . A welcome, well-written resource." * Choice Reviews *"There is a wealth of information and cogent analysis in this book. It is well-researched with a very full scholarly apparatus. . . . [A] highly entertaining work."---Alan Clarke, Open History Journal"Within its 434 pages some alchemy turns the drab 1970’s into London’s apotheosis. . . . I love the book—it’s a 400-page plus page turner."---Barry Coidan, The London Society"This is a book I will be using as a research source for many years to come."---Geoff Nicholson, Los Angeles Review of Books"Waterloo Sunrise, an original, superbly written, and immaculately researched book by John Davis, has the merit not only of being a serious work of social history but also of being one that lifts up the stone to reveal aspects of London life between the early 1960s and the advent of Mrs. Thatcher. . . . Davis is as perceptive in describing the decline of the 1970s as he is in detailing the excitement of London in the 1960s."---Simon Heffer, New Criterion
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Princeton University Press Patterns Predictions and Actions
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A thorough, very clearly written overview on the subject of machine learning for those with the prerequisite mathematical tools of calculus, linear algebra and probability."---Jonathan Shock, Mathemafrica"Valuable."---J. Brzezinski, Choice
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Princeton University Press The Mathematical Radio
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Princeton University Press EcoEmancipation An Earthly Politics of Freedom
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Princeton University Press Shame
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Princeton University Press Modern Architecture and Climate
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the inaugural Architecture Book of the Year Award, Technical Category""A rare opportunity to look closer at modernists’ environmental ethics and not just their aesthetics — and a timely reference for our worsening climate crisis."---Diana Budds, Curbed"The premise of [Modern Architecture and Climate] is this: The battle for the supremacy of air conditioning above all other solutions for climate mitigation was, in fact, a battle . . . [it] spanned continents, political ideologies, and architectural discourses…What makes Barber’s book so interesting is not only the meticulous documentation of…climate-control alternatives and their practitioners, but the tension between their goals and their underlying ideologies. . . . The lesson from Barber’s book is not to replicate the conditions that begat yesterday’s missed opportunities, but to change them for the better."---Kate Wagner, The Architect’s Newspaper"It’s easy to think of Modernism as inseparable from air conditioning, simply because we are surrounded by so much of it that is. A valuable reminder that this wasn’t always the case is provided in Daniel A. Barber’s Modern Architecture and Climate: Design Before Air Conditioning, which outlines the story of the febrile, flexible, and often-forgotten early experiments in climate control."---Anthony Paletta, Metropolis"[Modern Architecture and Climate] offers . . . the most comprehensive and concise corrective to the reigning histories of Modernism that have tended to exclude, or at least consider only superficially, environmental context."---Russell Fortmeyer, Architectural Record"[An] erudite work…Heavily illustrated and deeply researched. . . . Academics, urban planners, and environmental designers will most appreciate this thought-provoking and detailed volume." * Publishers Weekly *"Modern Architecture and Climate is a fresh and original history that chronicles the intense research undertaken by designers to adapt modernist architecture to various climate conditions, as modernism’s political and aesthetic influence reached across the globe. . . . Barber’s work is a welcome addition to the history of architectural modernism, and is particularly pertinent in our current circumstances. It demonstrates the profound impact that our expectations of a uniform interior have had on the planet we share. But its examples also offer an inspiring model for challenging assumptions about the role of building form in mitigating climate extremes."---Javier Zeller, Canadian Architect"Barber's book is not simply a technological history, but ultimately also an impassioned lament for our collective carbon footprint as planetary temperatures increase…Architects, engineers, and students interested in systematic and environmentally friendly approaches to indoor cooling will find inspiration in Modern Architecture and Climate….In a time of an airborne pandemic, Modern Architecture and Climate, with its rigorous examination of open interiors, airflow, and ventilation, will serve well those readers who have the grit to absorb the author's intensive approach and sobering message."---Paul Glassman, ARLIS/NA Reviews"[Daniel] Barber’s thorough account, written in the distanced expert voice of a historian, shines when it dispels established beliefs . . . [Modern Architecture and Climate] does an excellent job of documenting the subjects it cover."---Ross Wienert, Rice Design Alliance"[An] exhaustively researched book . . . [in Modern Architecture and Climate] Barber makes a well-supported argument that through the propagation of this very specific set of cultural and Modern Architecture and Climate comfort ideals, modern architecture became an instrument for globalization, economic development, and postwar colonialism."---Kristin Schuster, Texas Architect Magazine"I’ve waited years for a book like this… What Modern Architecture and Climate suggests is an alternative reckoning with modernism’s legacy—its ideas, strategies, and practitioners. With the urgency of our global climate crisis, many of these concerns are once again central…Barber’s book points us in the right direction." * Arris *"Daniel Barber's historical narrative is fascinating and holds many useful lessons for a contemporary audience."---Brian Ford, The Plan Journal"Richly illustrated. . . . For the academic and the architect, this valuable volume encourages more careful consideration of climatic modernism as both history and limit. It is thought-provoking, giving us pause to consider the passionate attempts that architects have made to mediate their environment. The tales gathered here trace a lineage that situates design within the planetary. . . . Barber’s constant and learned skepticism warns us to maintain an informed but critical distance from the pursuit of immediate comfort."---Hannah Le Roux, Journal for the Society of Architectural Historians"A thoroughly researched and superbly illustrated discussion of some of the most important connections between architecture and technology in the twentieth century, essential reading for anyone interested in the discourse around modern architecture in the light of current challenges."---Florian Urban, Architectural History"[A] deeply researched and richly illustrated volume. . . . [Modern Architecture and Climate] takes the material mediation of local climate through architecture as its path and sheds light on some of the (built and written) genealogies of questions pertaining to thermal comfort, solar heating, and passive cooling."---Anna-Maria Meister, Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society"This is a vitally important work of historical scholarship. . . . a landmark study."---Marcus Colla, German History"Modern Architecture and Climate is theoretically and visually rich, with many wonderful full-page illustrations that allow the reader to pick apart the layouts and diagrams of many mid-century publications and buildings. It is also an optimistic book, one that shows that the homogenous airconditioned interior wasn’t an inevitability, and still need not be."---Daniel J. Ryan, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review
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