Battleborn – Claire Vaye Watkins
Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents a near-perfect confluence of sensibility and setting, and the introduction of an exceptionally powerful and original literary voice. In each of these ten unforgettable stories, Claire Vaye Watkins writes her way fearlessly into the mythology of th ...
The Politics of Race in Latino Communities – Atiya Kai Stokes-Brown
Latinos are the fastest growing population group in the U.S. and have exerted widespread influence in numerous aspects of American culture from entertainment to economics. Unlike Asian, black, white, and Native Americans who are defined by race, Latinos can be of any race and are beginning to shed new light on the meanings and political implication ...
New Dynamics in East Asian Politics : Security, Political Economy, and Society – Zhiqun Zhu
Using a comparative and thematic approach, this book looks at key aspects of the dynamics in East Asian politics: security, political economy and society. It examines the impact of development at the societal, national, and international levels on the conduct of politics in East Asia. Citation: Zhu, Z. (2012). New dynamics in East Asian politics: ...
The Lost Saints of Tennessee – Amy Franklin-Willis
After losing his twin to a drowning accident and his wife to divorce, Zeke Cooper leaves his mother and two daughters behind in Tennessee and travels to Virginia horse country, where he considers his responsibility to repair his fractured family. Citation: Franklin-Willis, A. (2012). The lost saints of Tennessee. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press.
Research Beyond Borders : Multidisciplinary Reflections (chapter) – David Del Testa
Introduction: Onto the Frontlines Part I: Dialogues Chapter 1: History Lessons from an Indochinese Diary David Del Testa Chapter 2: Beyond the Archives: A Practical Guide for Ethical Research in Latin America Mark Carey Chapter 3: Studying Wild Spotted Hyenas in Kenya: Challenges and Implications Wiline Pangle Part II: Insecurities Chapter 4: Metho ...
The Face of Water : New and Selected Poems – Shara McCallum
Lyrical and well-crafted, this collection of poetry presents some of Jamaican poet Shara McCallum’s best work. While touching upon various topics—including migration, identity, family relationships, motherhood, mental illness, storytelling, folklore, and myth—these poems transform the most painful and sometimes mundane details of life into works of ...
Companion in Chemical Engineering : an Instructional Supplement – Michael Edward Hanyak Jr.
A Companion in Chemical Engineering (CinChE) is designed to aid students in the development of their critical thinking skills as an engineering problem solver. The creative problem-solving methodology emphasized in CinChE provides a general framework in which to solve any type of well-defined engineering problem involving material balances, phase e ...
Dramatic battles in eighteenth-century France : philosophes, anti-philosophes and polemical theatre – Logan Connors
Citation: Connors, L. J., & Voltaire Foundation. (2012). Dramatic battles in eighteenth-century France: Philosophes, anti-philosophes and polemical theatre. Oxford, UK: Voltaire Foundation.
Process geomorphology – R. Craig Kochel
The prime purpose of this book is to provide undergraduate students with an introductory understanding of process mechanics and how process leads to the genesis of landforms. In addition to historical concerns, today’s geomorphologist must relate to problems that face hydrologists, engineers, geologists, pedologists, foresters, and many other ...
The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (New Series) – G. C. Waldrep (editor)
Poetry. This nearly 600-page anthology brings together seminal work in the genre of the pastoral as it has evolved into the 21st century. The book’s sections on New Transcendentalisms, Textual Ecologies, Local Powers, and The Necropastoral indicate the range of work being represented. Featuring some of the most provocative and innovative poet ...
Homage to Paul Celan – G.C. Waldrep (editor)
If there is a country named Celania—as Julia Kristeva once proposed—its holy texts are filled with doubt, and they overcome this doubt almost successfully, with words of wrenching, uncompromised beauty…. The book in your hands is not intended to become one of those heavy scholarly tomes that serve as a “proof” of one’s posit ...
Child Growth and Development 19th edition- Chris Boyatzis (editor)
The Annual Editions series is designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Annual Editions are updated on a regular basis through a continuous monitoring of over 300 periodical sources. The articles selected are authored by ...
Active bodies : a history of women’s physical education in twentieth-century America – Martha Verbrugge
“Martha Verbrugge’s scholarly and critical analysis of the history of physical education within the political and social backdrop of twentieth century America brings to life the role of gym class in the lives of girls and women across the nation. Painting a brilliant and moving portrait of the world of female physical educators in a fie ...
Risk, reproduction, and narratives of experience – Lauren Fordyce
As Carole Browner explains in her foreword: “These chapters compellingly reveal that although we anthropologists tend to speak of biomedicine in hegemonic terms, in fact its penetration is quite variable and often ambivalently met. . . . Risk, Reproduction, and Narratives of Experience sheds new light on a troubling core aspect of medicalizat ...
Manga and the representation of Japanese history – James Shields (chapter)
This edited collection explores how graphic art and in particular Japanese manga represent Japanese history. The articles explore the representation of history in manga from disciplines that include such diverse fields as literary studies, politics, history, cultural studies, linguistics, narratology, and semiotics. Despite this diversity of app ...
Essentials of materials science and engneering, 3rd edition – Wendelin Wright
This text provides students with a solid understanding of the relationship between the structure, processing, and properties of materials. Authors Askeland and Wright present the fundamental concepts of atomic structure and the behavior of materials and clearly link them to the “materials” issues that students will have to deal with whe ...
Studies in the Medieval Atlantic (The New Middle Ages) – Alfred K. Siewers (Chapter)
Studies in the Medieval Atlantic is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that answers the question: what did the Atlantic Ocean mean to medieval north Europeans? Contributors analyze the Atlantic Ocean of the seventh to sixteenth centuries through literary, environmental, and historical approaches, studying it as an area that transcended ethni ...
A Philosophy to Live By: Engaging Iris Murdoch – Maria Antonaccio
Iris Murdoch’s philosophy has long attracted readers searching for a morally serious yet humane perspective on human life. Her eloquent call for “a theology which can continue without God” has been especially attractive to those who find that they can live neither with religion nor without it. By developing a form of thinking that ...
A new history of German cinema – Bastian Heinsohn (Chapter)
This dynamic, event-centered anthology offers a new understanding of the hundred-year history of German-language film, from the earliest days of the Kintopp to contemporary productions like The Lives of Others. Eachof the more than eighty essays takes a key date as its starting point and explores its significance for German-language film history, p ...
Archeopsychology and the modern mind – Douglas K. Candland
You read an article about repressed memories of sexual abuse returning in middle-age; a television program features actors as villains of a certain build and physiognomy; you chat with a friend about the damage done to their personalities by their parents, siblings, or circumstances; you explain to someone how you forgot a task assigned because of ...
Augsburg During the Reformation Era: An Anthology of Sources – B. Ann Tlusty
Sixteenth-century Augsburg comes to life in this beautifully chosen and elegantly translated selection of original documents. Ranging across the whole panoply of social activity from the legislative reformation to work, recreation, and family life, these extracts make plain the subtle system of checks and balances, violence, and self-regulation tha ...
A companion to romantic poetry – Ghislaine G. McDayter (Chapter)
There are no uncontested dates with which to delimit the Romantic period in poetry; therefore historically, the study of Romantic poetry has been organized around just six canonical figures — Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats — and structured in terms of the categories generated by their works alone. Citation: Maho ...
Early American Cartographies – Michael Jacob Drexler
Maps were at the heart of cultural life in the Americas from before colonization to the formation of modern nation-states. The fourteen essays in Early American Cartographies examine indigenous and European peoples’ creation and use of maps to better represent and understand the world they inhabited. Drawing from both current historical inter ...
Starting with the Finnish – Carl Kirby (Lux Bridge)
Citation: Lux Bridge., Johnston, K. B., Kirby, C., Kline, J., & Kimbo’s Studio. (2012). Starting with the Finnish. Lewisburg, PA: Kimbo’s Studio.
Introduction to Political Economy – Charles Sackery, Geoff Schneider, Janet Knoedler
Few economics programs today offer students the opportunity to study the history of economic thought or the philosophical foundations of diverse schools of economics. Introduction to Political Economy reintroduces these ideas into the curriculum by presenting the work of the most influential economists of modern times—Marx, Veblen, Keynes, Galbrait ...
Rethinking Japanese modernism – James Shields
Citation: Starrs, R. (2012). “Awakening between science, art & ethics: variations on Japanese Buddhist modernism, 1890-1945.” Rethinking Japanese modernism. Leiden: Global Oriental.
The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics – Saundra Morris
Through three editions over more than four decades, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics has built an unrivaled reputation as the most comprehensive and authoritative reference for students, scholars, and poets on all aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more. Now this l ...
Identity and Diversity Celebrating Dance in Taiwan – Danna Frangione (Chapter)
Reflecting the breadth and diversity of dance in the Asia–Pacific region, this volume provides an in-depth and comprehensive study of Taiwan’s dance history. Taiwan is home to several indigenous tribes with unique rituals and folk dance traditions, with an array of eclectic influences including martial arts and Peking Opera from China, and dance ...
October 1st, 2012
Identity and Diversity Celebrating Dance in Taiwan – Danna Frangione (Chapter)
Reflecting the breadth and diversity of dance in the Asia–Pacific region, this volume provides an in-depth and comprehensive study of Taiwan’s dance history. Taiwan is home to several indigenous tribes with unique rituals and folk dance traditions, with an array of eclectic influences including martial arts and Peking Opera from China, and dance forms such as contemporary, neo-classical, post-modern, jazz, ballroom, and hip-hop from the West. Dance in Taiwan, led by pioneers such as choreographers Liu Feng-shueh and Lin Hwai-min, continues to have a strong presence in both performance and educational arenas. In 1973, Lin Hwai-min created Cloud Gate Dance [...]
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September 28th, 2012
Anisotropic mechanical properties of ABS parts fabricated by fused deposition modelling – Mala Sharma and Constance Ziemian (Chapter)
Citation: Gokcek, M. (2012). “Anisotropic mechanical properties of ABS parts fabricated by fused deposition modelling.” Mechanicial engineering. Croatia: InTech.
September 27th, 2012
The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics – Saundra Morris
Through three editions over more than four decades, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics has built an unrivaled reputation as the most comprehensive and authoritative reference for students, scholars, and poets on all aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more. Now this landmark work has been thoroughly revised and updated for the twenty-first century. Compiled by an entirely new team of editors, the fourth edition–the first new edition in almost twenty years–reflects recent changes in literary and cultural studies, providing up-to-date coverage and giving greater attention to the international aspects of poetry, [...]
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Encyclopedia of the Bible and its reception – Rivka Ulmer
EBR offers a comprehensive and in-depth rendering of the current state of knowledge on the origins and development of the Bible according to its different canonic forms in Judaism and Christianity. At the same time, EBR also documents the history of the Bible’s reception in Judaism and Christianity as evident in exegetical literature, theological and philosophical writings of various genres, literature, liturgy, music, the visual arts, dance, and film, as well as in Islam and other religious traditions and contemporary movements.”–Publisher’s website Citations: Klauck, H.-J. (2009). “Consolation. Rabbinic Judaism.” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its reception. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
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September 25th, 2012
Handbook of research methods and applications in urban economics – Peter K. Kresl
Citation: Kresl, P.K. & Sobrino, J. (2013). Handbook of research methods and applications in urban economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
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September 25th, 2012
Rethinking Japanese modernism – James Shields
Citation: Starrs, R. (2012). “Awakening between science, art & ethics: variations on Japanese Buddhist modernism, 1890-1945.” Rethinking Japanese modernism. Leiden: Global Oriental.
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September 25th, 2012
Playground – Tulu Bayar
Citation: Bayar, T. & The Art Gallery & The Kozmetsky Center of Excellence in Global Finance at St. Edward’s Univeristy. (2011). Playground (Exhibition Catalog). Austin, TX.
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September 19th, 2012
Introduction to Political Economy – Charles Sackery, Geoff Schneider, Janet Knoedler
Few economics programs today offer students the opportunity to study the history of economic thought or the philosophical foundations of diverse schools of economics. Introduction to Political Economy reintroduces these ideas into the curriculum by presenting the work of the most influential economists of modern times—Marx, Veblen, Keynes, Galbraith, and Adam Smith. Introduction to Political Economy covers these thinkers’ central ideas, including their writings on social class, the role of government in taming capitalist economies, and the misleading assumptions about human behavior in mainstream models. It concludes by presenting classic critiques of monopoly capitalism and examining the Swedish “middle way” [...]
September 19th, 2012
Starting with the Finnish – Carl Kirby (Lux Bridge)
Citation: Lux Bridge., Johnston, K. B., Kirby, C., Kline, J., & Kimbo’s Studio. (2012). Starting with the Finnish. Lewisburg, PA: Kimbo’s Studio.
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September 19th, 2012
Early American Cartographies – Michael Jacob Drexler
Maps were at the heart of cultural life in the Americas from before colonization to the formation of modern nation-states. The fourteen essays in Early American Cartographies examine indigenous and European peoples’ creation and use of maps to better represent and understand the world they inhabited. Drawing from both current historical interpretations and new interdisciplinary perspectives, this collection provides diverse approaches to understanding the multilayered exchanges that went into creating cartographic knowledge in and about the Americas. In the introduction, editor Martin Bruckner provides a critical assessment of the concept of cartography and of the historiography of maps. The individual [...]
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