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Series: MindYourSelf Living with Motor Neurone Disease A complete guide Paperback Murray Marie 9781782054832 $24.95 MEDICAL Oct 29, 2021

Living with Motor Neurone Disease: A complete guide is designed to guide the reader through this complex progressive neurodegenerative condition that attacks the motor neurones, or nerves, in the brain and spinal cord. This means that messages gradually stop reaching the muscles, which leads to weakness and wasting. Motor Neurone Disease can affect the everyday things that we take for granted. A diagnosis of MND which is also known as ALS can be frightening and overwhelming. Good quality information and support from people who understand MND i... + Read More
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Series: ‘The First National Museum' Dublin's Natural History Museum in the mid-nineteenth century Hardcover Sherra Murphy 9781782054559 $60.95 ART Nov 12, 2021

Dublin?s Natural History Museum is a uniquely preserved sliver of the past, an intact example of a nineteenth-century natural science collection. While its polished cases and stuffed animals show us what the museum looked like in its heyday, this book is the first detailed exploration of its early history, showing how and why it came into being, and what it meant in nineteenth-century Irish culture. From its earliest days as a small collection at the Royal Dublin Society to the gala inauguration of its new home on Merrion Square in 1857, everyo... + Read More
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Series: Female Monasticism in Medieval Ireland An archaeology Hardcover Tracy Collins 9781782054566 $60.95 HISTORY Nov 09, 2021

This book is the first to explore the archaeology of female monasticism in medieval Ireland, primarily from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. Nuns are known from history, but this book considers their archaeology and upstanding architecture through perspectives such as gender and landscape. It discusses the archaeological remains associated with female monasticism in Ireland as it is currently understood and offers insights into how these religious communities might have lived and interacted with their local communities. It briefly includ... + Read More
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Series: Sources in Irish Art 2 A reader Hardcover Fintan Cullen 9781782054573 $60.95 ART Oct 01, 2021

Sources in Irish Art 2: A Reader is an anthology of literary and critical sources for the study of visual art and Ireland. It is a completely new version of the 2000 publication, Sources in Irish Art with an additional editor, brand new texts with the historical range stretching from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. Divided into four sections, Art historiography, Nationalism and identity, the Wider world, and Art and text, the sources included are taken from letters, travel diaries, antiquarian writings, art dictionaries, accounts... + Read More
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Series: Setting the Stage Transitional playwrights in Irish 1910-1950 Hardcover Philip O'Leary 9781782054580 $60.95 DRAMA Nov 12, 2021

There was no native tradition of theatre in Irish. Thus, language revivalists were forced to develop the genre ex nihilo if there was to be a Gaelic drama that was not entirely made up of translations. The earliest efforts to do so at the beginning of the 20th century were predictably clumsy at best, and truly dreadful at worst. Yet by the 1950s, a handful of Gaelic playwrights were producing plays in Irish worthy of comparison not only with those by their Irish contemporaries working in English but also with drama being produced elsewhere in E... + Read More
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Series: Tornadoes and Waterspouts in Ireland Ancient and Modern Hardcover John Tyrrell 9781782054597 $60.95 SCIENCE Nov 19, 2021

People living in Ireland do not expect to encounter a tornado. But, why not? They have been part of the Irish climate and have tracked across the land for hundreds of years. Indeed, during the last three decades they have visited every county in Ireland. This book traces how for centuries there was not the vocabulary to record them in a way we would recognise them today. In retrieving these records new insights emerge into both the written historical record and phrases used in our contemporary accounts. It introduces those conditions in Ireland... + Read More
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Series: Eoin MacNeill The Pen and the Sword Hardcover Conor Mulvagh 9781782054603 $60.95 HISTORY May 27, 2022

Eoin MacNeill (1867-1945) was a founding figure in the Gaelic League, the Irish Volunteers, and the government of Ireland. As Professor of Early (including Mediaeval) History at University College Dublin was also one of the foremost Irish historians of his generation. As a professor, a politician, and the leader of a paramilitary organisation, MacNeill fused scholarship and activism into a complex life that both followed and led the course of Irish independence from gestation to maturation. MacNeill is arguably best known as the man who tried t... + Read More
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Series: Gay, Catholic, and American My Legal Battle for Marriage Equality and Inclusion Paperback Greg Bourke 9780268201241 $35.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 01, 2021

Catholic Greg Bourke's profoundly moving memoir about growing up gay and overcoming discrimination in the battle for same-sex marriage in the US.In this compelling and deeply affecting memoir, Greg Bourke recounts growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, and living as a gay Catholic. The book describes Bourke’s early struggles for acceptance as an out gay man living in the South during the 1980s and ’90s, his unplanned transformation into an outspoken gay rights activist after being dismissed as a troop leader from the Boy Scouts of America in 2012,... + Read More
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Series: Defiance in Exile Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan Paperback Waed Athamneh 9780268201173 $37.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 01, 2021

This book offers a glimpse into Syrian refugee women’s stories of defiance and triumph in the aftermath of the Syrian uprising.The al-Zaatari Camp in northern Jordan is the largest Syrian refugee camp in the world, home to 80,000 inhabitants. While al-Zaatari has been described by the Western media as an ideal refugee camp, the Syrian women living within its confines offer a very different account of their daily reality. Defiance in Exile: Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan presents for the first time in a book-length format the opportunity to hear... + Read More
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Series: The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series March 1917 The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3 Hardcover Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 9780268201708 $56.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2021

In March 1917, Book 3 the forces of revolutionary disintegration spread out from Petrograd all the way to the front lines of World War I, presaging Russia’s collapse.One of the masterpieces of world literature, The Red Wheel is Nobel prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s multivolume epic work about the Russian Revolution told in the form of a historical novel. March 1917—the third node—tells the story, day by day, of the Russian Revolution itself. Until recently, the final two nodes have been unavailable in English. The publication of Book 1 of... + Read More
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Series: The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series Between Two Millstones, Book 1 Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978 Paperback Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 9780268105020 $35.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2021

Russian Nobel prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important figures—and perhaps the most important writer—of the last century. To celebrate the centenary of his birth, the first English translation of his memoir of the West, Between Two Millstones, Book 1, is being published. Fast-paced, absorbing, and as compelling as the earlier installments of his memoir The Oak and the Calf (1975), Between Two Millstones begins on February 13, 1974, when Solzhenitsyn found himself forcibly expelled to Fr... + Read More
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Series: Boom and Bust in Puerto Rico How Politics Destroyed an Economic Miracle Hardcover A. W. Maldonado 9780268200978 $47.95 HISTORY Aug 01, 2021

Who is to blame for the economic and political crisis in Puerto Rico—the United States or Puerto Rico? This book provides a fascinating historical perspective on the problem and an unequivocal answer on who is to blame.In this engaging and approachable book, journalist A. W. Maldonado charts the rise and fall of the Puerto Rican economy and explains how a litany of bad political and fiscal policy decisions in Washington and Puerto Rico destroyed an economic miracle.Under Operation Bootstrap in the 1950s and '60s, the rapid transformation and in... + Read More
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Series: Catholic Ideas for a Secular World The Rights of Women Reclaiming a Lost Vision Paperback Erika Bachiochi 9780268200824 $47.95 HISTORY Jul 15, 2021

Erika Bachiochi offers an original look at the development of feminism in the United States, advancing a vision of rights that rests upon our responsibilities to others.In The Rights of Women, Erika Bachiochi explores the development of feminist thought in the United States. Inspired by the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Bachiochi presents the intellectual history of a lost vision of women’s rights, seamlessly weaving philosophical insight, biographical portraits, and constitutional law to showcase the once predominant view that our rights pr... + Read More
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Series: Religion and Politics Beyond the Culture Wars New Directions in a Divided America Hardcover Darren Dochuk 9780268201296 $74.95 HISTORY Oct 15, 2021

This volume reframes the narrative that has too often dominated the field of historical study of religion and politics: the culture wars.Influenced by culture war theories first introduced in the 1990s, much of the recent history of modern American religion and politics is written in a mode that takes for granted the enduring partisan divides that can blind us to the complex and dynamic intersections of faith and politics. The contributors to Religion and Politics Beyond the Culture Wars argue that such narratives do not tell the whole story of... + Read More
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Series: American Statesmanship Principles and Practice of Leadership Hardcover Joseph R. Fornieri 9780268201050 $101.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Nov 01, 2021

This book, much needed in our public discourse, examines some of the most significant political leaders in American history.With an eye on the elusive qualities of political greatness, this anthology considers the principles and practices of diverse political leaders who influenced the founding and development of the American experiment in self-government. Providing both breadth and depth, this work is a virtual “who’s who” from the founding to modern times. From George Washington to Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to FDR and Rona... + Read More
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Series: Catholic Ideas for a Secular World Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law Hardcover Steven D. Smith 9780268201203 $54.95 LAW Sep 15, 2021

Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law discusses legal, political, and cultural difficulties that arise from the crisis of authority in the modern world.Is there any connection linking some of the maladies of modern life—“cancel culture,” the climate of mendacity in public and academic life, fierce conflicts over the Constitution, disputes over presidential authority? Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law argues that these diverse problems are all a consequence of what Hannah Arendt described as the disappearance of authority in the modern... + Read More
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Series: Sin Hardcover Gregory Mellema 9780268201333 $40.95 RELIGION Aug 15, 2021

This book brings clarification to our understanding of the nature of sin and will be of interest to nonphilosophers as well as philosophers.Most of the scholarly literature on sin has focused on theological issues, making book-length philosophical treatments of the topic hard to find. Sin, the newest contribution by Gregory Mellema, fills the gap by providing a short and lively summary of what contemporary philosophers are saying about the relationship between the traditional theological category of sin and contemporary philosophical ethics. Me... + Read More
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Series: Complicity and Moral Accountability Paperback Gregory Mellema 9780268035419 $39.95 RELIGION Aug 15, 2021

In Complicity and Moral Accountability, Gregory Mellema presents a philosophical approach to the moral issues involved in complicity. Starting with a taxonomy of Thomas Aquinas, according to whom there are nine ways for one to become complicit in the wrongdoing of another, Mellema analyzes each kind of complicity and examines the moral status of someone complicit in each of these ways. Mellema’s central argument is that one must perform a contributing action to qualify as an accomplice, and that it is always morally blameworthy to perform such ... + Read More
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Series: Godsends From Default Atheism to the Surprise of Revelation Hardcover William Desmond 9780268201579 $87.95 RELIGION Nov 15, 2021

Godsends is William Desmond’s newest addition to his masterwork on the borderlines between philosophy and theology.For many years, William Desmond has been patiently constructing a philosophical project—replete with its own terminology, idiom, grammar, dialectic, and its metaxological transformation—in an attempt to reopen certain boundaries: between metaphysics and phenomenology, between philosophy of religion and philosophical theology, between the apocalyptic and the speculative, and between religious passion and systematic reasoning. In God... + Read More
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Series: Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics The Way of Medicine Ethics and the Healing Profession Paperback Farr Curlin 9780268200862 $40.95 MEDICAL Aug 15, 2021

Today’s medicine is spiritually deflated and morally adrift; this book explains why and offers an ethical framework to renew and guide practitioners in fulfilling their profession to heal.What is medicine and what is it for? What does it mean to be a good doctor? Answers to these questions are essential both to the practice of medicine and to understanding the moral norms that shape that practice. The Way of Medicine articulates and defends an account of medicine and medical ethics meant to challenge the reigning provider of services model, in ... + Read More
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Series: Aquinas and the Infused Moral Virtues Hardcover Angela McKay Knobel 9780268201098 $87.95 RELIGION Oct 15, 2021

This study locates Aquinas’s theory of infused and acquired virtue in his foundational understanding of nature and grace.Aquinas holds that all the virtues are bestowed on humans by God along with the gift of sanctifying grace. Since he also holds, with Aristotle, that we can create virtuous dispositions in ourselves through our own repeated good acts, a question arises: How are we to understand the relationship between the virtues God infuses at the moment of grace and virtues that are gradually acquired over time? In this important book, Ange... + Read More
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Series: Toward a Sacramental Poetics Hardcover Regina M. Schwartz 9780268201494 $81.95 RELIGION Dec 15, 2021

Distinguished theologians and literary scholars explore the workings of the sacred and the sacramental in language and literature.What does a sacramental poetics offer that secular cultural theory, for all of its advances, may have missed? How does a sacred understanding of the world differ from a strictly secular one? This volume develops the theory of “sacramental poetics” advanced by Regina Schwartz in her 2008 book on English Reformation writers, taking the theory in new directions while demonstrating how enduring and widespread this poetic... + Read More
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Series: Action (1893) Essay on a Critique of Life and a Science of Practice Paperback Maurice Blondel 9780268201524 $67.95 RELIGION Dec 15, 2021

This new edition of the English translation of Maurice Blondel’s Action (1893) remains a philosophical classic.Action was once a common theme in philosophical reflection. It figured prominently in Aristotelian philosophy, and the medieval Scholastics built some of their key adages around it. But by the time French philosopher Maurice Blondel came to focus on it at the end of the nineteenth century, it had all but disappeared from the philosophical vocabulary. Today, it is no longer possible or legitimate to ignore action in philosophy as it was... + Read More
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Series: The Eucharistic Sacrifice Paperback Sergius Bulgakov 9780268201418 $56.95 RELIGION Sep 15, 2021

This first English translation represents Sergius Bulgakov’s final, fully developed word on the Eucharist.The debate around the controversial doctrine of the Eucharist as sacrifice has dogged relations between Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant churches since the Reformation. In The Eucharistic Sacrifice, the famous Russian theologian Sergius Bulgakov cuts through long-standing polemics surrounding the notion of the Eucharist as sacrifice and offers a stunningly original intervention rooted in his distinctive theological vision. This work, writ... + Read More
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Series: Creation ex nihilo Origins, Development, Contemporary Challenges Paperback Gary A. Anderson 9780268102548 $47.95 RELIGION Jul 15, 2021

The phrase "creation ex nihilo" refers to the primarily Christian notion of God’s creation of everything from nothing. Creation ex nihilo: Origins, Development, Contemporary Challenges presents the findings of a joint research project at Oxford University and the University of Notre Dame in 2014–2015. The doctrine of creation ex nihilo has met with criticism and revisionary theories in recent years from the worlds of science, theology, and philosophy. This volume concentrates on several key areas: the relationship of the doctrine to its purport... + Read More
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Series: Liu Institute Series in Chinese Christianities Schism Seventh-day Adventism in Post-Denominational China Hardcover Christie Chui-Shan Chow 9780268200527 $101.95 RELIGION Oct 15, 2021

Schism is the first ethnographic and historical study of Seventh-day Adventism in China.Scholars have been slow to consider Chinese Protestantism from a denominational standpoint. In Schism, the first monograph that documents the life of the Chinese Adventist denomination from the mid-1970s to the 2010s, Christie Chui-Shan Chow explores how Chinese Seventh-day Adventists have used schism as a tool to retain, revive, and recast their unique ecclesial identity in a religious habitat that resists diversity.Based on unpublished archival materials, ... + Read More
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Series: ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern Christian Identity, Piety, and Politics in Early Modern England Hardcover Robert E. Stillman 9780268200411 $128.95 HISTORY Jul 15, 2021

This book challenges the adequacy of identifying religious identity with confessional identity.The Reformation complicated the issue of religious identity, especially among Christians for whom confessional violence at home and religious wars on the continent had made the darkness of confessionalization visible. Robert E. Stillman explores the identity of “Christians without names,” as well as their agency as cultural actors in order to recover their consequence for early modern religious, political, and poetic history.Stillman argues that quest... + Read More
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Series: Listen to the Mourners The Essential Poems of Nazik Al-Mala'ika Paperback Nazik Al-Mala’ika 9780268200947 $37.95 POETRY Nov 15, 2021

This is one of the first book-length English translations of Nazik Al-Mala’ika’s Arabic poetry.One of the most influential Iraqi poets of the twentieth century, Nazik Al-Mala’ika pioneered the modern Arabic verse movement when she broke away from the formalistic classical modes of Arabic poetry that had prevailed for more than fifteen centuries. Along with ?Abdulwahhab Al-Bayyati and Badre Shakir Al-Sayyab, she paved the way for the birth of a new modernist poetic movement in the Arab world.Until now, very little of Al-Mala’ika’s poetry has bee... + Read More
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Series: Midwest Archaeological Perspectives Ancient Pottery, Cuisine, and Society at the Northern Great Lakes Paperback Susan M. Kooiman 9780268201463 $60.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 15, 2021

This innovative archaeological study of diet and cooking technology sheds light on ancient cuisine.Ancient cuisine is one of the hot topics in today’s archaeology. This book explores changing settlement and subsistence in the Northern Great Lakes from the perspective of food-processing technology and cooking. Susan Kooiman examines precontact Indigenous pottery from the Cloudman site on Drummond Island on the far eastern end of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to investigate both how pottery technology, pottery use, diet, and cooking habits change ov... + Read More
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Series: The Identitarians The Movement against Globalism and Islam in Europe Paperback José Pedro Zúquete 9780268104221 $43.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jul 15, 2021

The Identitarians are a quickly growing ethnocultural transnational movement that, in diverse forms, originated in France and Italy and has spread into southern, central, and northern Europe. This timely and important study presents the first book-length analysis of this anti-globalist and anti-Islamic movement. José Pedro Zúquete, one of the leading experts in this field, studies intellectuals, social movements, young activists, and broader trends to demonstrate the growing strength and alliances among these once disparate groups fighting agai... + Read More
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Series: Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development From Revolution to Power in Brazil How Radical Leftists Embraced Capitalism and Struggled with Leadership Paperback Kenneth P. Serbin 9780268105860 $60.95 HISTORY Jul 15, 2021

From Revolution to Power in Brazil: How Radical Leftists Embraced Capitalism and Struggled with Leadership examines terrorism from a new angle. Kenneth Serbin portrays a generation of Brazilian resistance fighters and militants struggling to rebuild their lives after suffering torture and military defeat by the harsh dictatorship that took control with the support of the United States in 1964, exiting in 1985.Based on two decades of research and more than three hundred hours of interviews with former members of the revolutionary organization Na... + Read More
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Series: Buried Truths and the Hyatt Skywalks The Legacy of America's Epic Structural Failure Hardcover Richard A. Serrano 9781612497150 $40.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 28, 2021

In 1981 the sudden collapse of two skywalks in Kansas City?s Hyatt hotel killed 114 people and injured another 200. There never was a public trial, nor a full airing of everything that went wrong. Richard A. Serrano shared a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the disaster at the time; now he returns to the tragedy to learn all that went wrong, how it could have been avoided, and what lasting effects persist today?for engineering and the legal system, but most importantly those who suffered. Drawing on legal depositions, evidentiary material, an... + Read More
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Series: New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond Assessing Handlers for Competence in Animal-Assisted Interventions Paperback Ann R. Howie 9781612496764 $26.95 PETS Sep 15, 2021

Through practical, real-life examples, Assessing Handlers for Competence in Animal-Assisted Interventions provides guidance to any person working with animals in any setting. Facilities that have volunteers who work independently are in the greatest need of competent handlers, yet many of those facilities accept handlers with only proof of animal vaccinations. Other facilities accept an evaluation of the animal-handler team without knowing whether that evaluation relates to their facility or client dynamics. Both of these problems easily can be... + Read More
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Series: My Seven Lives Jana Juránová in Conversation with Agnea Kalinová Paperback Jana Juránová 9781612497204 $40.95 HISTORY Oct 15, 2021

My Seven Lives is the English translation of the best-selling memoir of Slovak journalist Agne?a Kalinová (1924?2014): Holocaust survivor, film critic, translator, and political prisoner. An oral history written with her colleague Jana Jurá?ová, My Seven Lives provides a window into Jewish history, the Holocaust, and the cultural evolution of Central and Eastern Europe. The conversational approach gives the book a relatable immediacy that vividly conveys the tone and temperament of Agne?a, bringing out her lively personality and extraordinary a... + Read More
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Series: Truths, Lies, and Histories of Nashville Mastodons to Mississippians Adventures in Nashville's Deep Past Paperback Aaron Deter-Wolf 9780826502155 $20.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 16, 2021

Was Nashville once home to a giant race of humans? No, but in 1845, you could have paid a quarter to see the remains of one who allegedly lived here before The Flood. That summer, Middle Tennessee well diggers had unearthed the skeleton of an American mastodon. Before it went on display, it was modified and augmented with wooden “bones” to make it look more like a human being and passed off as an antediluvian giant. Then, like so many Nashvillians, after a little success here, it went on tour and disappeared from history. But this fake history ... + Read More
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Series: Natural Consequences A Novel Paperback Elia Barceló 9780826502339 $26.95 FICTION Nov 15, 2021

The Xhroll, an alien humanoid race whose infertility is bringing them near extinction, come into contact with a crew of fertile human astronauts. Their encounter on a remote space station will have significant consequences for both species when a human male winds up impregnated. Author Elia Barceló's setup is funny and feminist, and it raises questions of what it means to be "male" or "female"—prescient, considering this novel was first published twenty-five years ago. The anniversary is being celebrated now with the first English-language edit... + Read More
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Series: The Sculpture of William Edmondson Tombstones, Garden Ornaments, and Stonework Paperback Marin R. Sullivan 9780826502360 $40.95 ART Sep 15, 2021

William Edmondson (1874-1951) was the first African American sculptor to have a one-person exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Edmondson started sculpting in his late fifties, after the Nashville Women's Hospital, where he worked as a janitor, closed. During his life he was well known for his yard art, such as whimsical birdbaths and “critters” of real and imaginary provenance, and the grave markers he carved for African American families. His sculptures are now highly sought after by collectors.The Sculpture of William Edmondson: Tombstone... + Read More
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Series: When a Robot Decides to Die and Other Stories Paperback Francisco García González 9780826502223 $26.95 FICTION Nov 15, 2021

A manufactured and pre-programmed serial killer; a suicidal robot; a romantic necrophiliac; and an archaeologist who feeds the perverse desires of aficionados of the apocalypse—Francisco García Gonzalez's stories map out literary and metafictional approaches to the sci-fi universe in ways that echo the humor and violence of Miguel de Cervantes, María de Zayas, Jorge Luis Borges, Rosa Montero, and Roberto Bolaño. With a scholarly introduction by translator Bradley J. Nelson that introduces García González's oeuvre to contemporary readers and sch... + Read More
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Series: Borges An Introduction Paperback Julio Premat 9780826502254 $47.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Oct 15, 2021

This book, available for the first time in English, offers a thorough introductory reading of Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most remarkable and influential writers of the twentieth century. Julio Premat, a specialist in the field of Borges studies, presents the main questions posed by Borges's often paradoxical writing, and leads the novice through the complexity and breadth of Borges's vast literary production. Originally published in French by an Argentine ex-pat living in Paris, Borges includes the Argentine specificities of Borges’s work—sp... + Read More
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Series: Borges An Introduction Hardcover Julio Premat 9780826502261 $134.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Oct 15, 2021

This book, available for the first time in English, offers a thorough introductory reading of Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most remarkable and influential writers of the twentieth century. Julio Premat, a specialist in the field of Borges studies, presents the main questions posed by Borges's often paradoxical writing, and leads the novice through the complexity and breadth of Borges's vast literary production. Originally published in French by an Argentine ex-pat living in Paris, Borges includes the Argentine specificities of Borges’s work—sp... + Read More
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Series: Centenary Subjects Race, Reason, and Rupture in the Americas Paperback Shawn McDaniel 9780826502292 $47.95 HISTORY Dec 15, 2021

Centenary Subjects examines the ideological debates and didactic exercises in subject formation during the centenary era of independence (the decade of the 1910s)—the peak of arielismo—and proposes a new reading of the arielista archive that brings into focus the racial anxieties, epistemological and spiritual fissures, and iconoclastic agendas that structure, and at times smother, the ethos of that era.Arielismo takes its name from José Enrique Rodó’s foundational essay Ariel (1900), a wide-ranging gospel dedicated to Latin American youth that... + Read More
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Series: Centenary Subjects Race, Reason, and Rupture in the Americas Hardcover Shawn McDaniel 9780826502308 $134.95 HISTORY Dec 15, 2021

Centenary Subjects examines the ideological debates and didactic exercises in subject formation during the centenary era of independence (the decade of the 1910s)—the peak of arielismo—and proposes a new reading of the arielista archive that brings into focus the racial anxieties, epistemological and spiritual fissures, and iconoclastic agendas that structure, and at times smother, the ethos of that era.Arielismo takes its name from José Enrique Rodó’s foundational essay Ariel (1900), a wide-ranging gospel dedicated to Latin American youth that... + Read More
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Series: Obsession, Aesthetics, and the Iberian City The Partial Madness of Modern Urban Culture Paperback Benjamin Fraser 9780826502377 $47.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 17, 2022

Although many depictions of the city in prose, poetry, and visual art can be found dating from earlier periods in human history, Obsession, Aesthetics, and the Iberian City emphasizes a particular phase in urban development. This is the quintessentially modern city that comes into being in the nineteenth century. In social terms, this nineteenth-century city is the product of a specialist class of planners engaged in what urban theorist Henri Lefebvre has called the bourgeois science of modern urbanism. One thinks first of the large scale and t... + Read More
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Series: Obsession, Aesthetics, and the Iberian City The Partial Madness of Modern Urban Culture Hardcover Benjamin Fraser 9780826502384 $134.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 17, 2022

Although many depictions of the city in prose, poetry, and visual art can be found dating from earlier periods in human history, Obsession, Aesthetics, and the Iberian City emphasizes a particular phase in urban development. This is the quintessentially modern city that comes into being in the nineteenth century. In social terms, this nineteenth-century city is the product of a specialist class of planners engaged in what urban theorist Henri Lefebvre has called the bourgeois science of modern urbanism. One thinks first of the large scale and t... + Read More
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Series: Black Lives and Liberation Race, Religion, and Black Lives Matter Essays on a Moment and a Movement Paperback Christopher Cameron 9780826502063 $47.95 HISTORY Aug 15, 2021

Black Lives Matter, like its predecessor movements, embodies flesh and blood through local organizing, national and global protests, hunger strikes, and numerous acts of civil disobedience. Chants like “All night! All day! We’re gonna fight for Freddie Gray!” and “No justice, no fear! Sandra Bland is marching here!” give voice simultaneously to the rage, truth, hope, and insurgency that sustain BLM. While BLM has generously welcomed a broad group of individuals whom religious institutions have historically resisted or rejected, contrary to gene... + Read More
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Series: Black Lives and Liberation Race, Religion, and Black Lives Matter Essays on a Moment and a Movement Hardcover Christopher Cameron 9780826502070 $134.95 HISTORY Aug 15, 2021

Black Lives Matter, like its predecessor movements, embodies flesh and blood through local organizing, national and global protests, hunger strikes, and numerous acts of civil disobedience. Chants like “All night! All day! We’re gonna fight for Freddie Gray!” and “No justice, no fear! Sandra Bland is marching here!” give voice simultaneously to the rage, truth, hope, and insurgency that sustain BLM. While BLM has generously welcomed a broad group of individuals whom religious institutions have historically resisted or rejected, contrary to gene... + Read More
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Series: The Reinvention of Mexico in Contemporary Spanish Travel Writing Paperback Jane Hanley 9780826502117 $47.95 HISTORY Sep 23, 2021

The long history of transatlantic movement in the Spanish-speaking world has had a significant impact on present-day concepts of Mexico and the implications of representing Mexico and Latin America more generally in Spain, Europe, and throughout the world. In addition to analyzing texts that have received little to no critical attention, this book examines the connections between contemporary travel, including the local dynamics of encounters and the global circulation of information, and the significant influence of the history of exchange bet... + Read More
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Series: The Reinvention of Mexico in Contemporary Spanish Travel Writing Hardcover Jane Hanley 9780826502124 $134.95 HISTORY Sep 15, 2021

The long history of transatlantic movement in the Spanish-speaking world has had a significant impact on present-day concepts of Mexico and the implications of representing Mexico and Latin America more generally in Spain, Europe, and throughout the world. In addition to analyzing texts that have received little to no critical attention, this book examines the connections between contemporary travel, including the local dynamics of encounters and the global circulation of information, and the significant influence of the history of exchange bet... + Read More
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Series: Hispanic Issues Rite, Flesh, and Stone The Matter of Death in Contemporary Spanish Culture Paperback Antonio Córdoba 9780826502186 $47.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 15, 2021

Forensic science provides information and data behind the circumstances of a particular death, but it is culture that provides death with meaning. With this in mind, Rite, Flesh, and Stone proposes cultural matters of death as its structuring principle, operating as frames of the expression of mortality within a distinct set of coordinates. The chapters offer original approaches to how human remains are handled in the embodied rituals and social performances of contemporary funeral rites of all kinds; furthermore, they explore how dying flesh a... + Read More
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Series: Hispanic Issues Rite, Flesh, and Stone The Matter of Death in Contemporary Spanish Culture Hardcover Antonio Córdoba 9780826502193 $134.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 15, 2021

Forensic science provides information and data behind the circumstances of a particular death, but it is culture that provides death with meaning. With this in mind, Rite, Flesh, and Stone proposes cultural matters of death as its structuring principle, operating as frames of the expression of mortality within a distinct set of coordinates. The chapters offer original approaches to how human remains are handled in the embodied rituals and social performances of contemporary funeral rites of all kinds; furthermore, they explore how dying flesh a... + Read More
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Series: Critical Mexican Studies Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures Feminist Living as Resistance Paperback Irmgard Emmelhainz 9780826502445 $47.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 17, 2022

Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures is an homage to a constellation of women writers, feminists, and creators whose voices draw a map of our current global political-environmental crisis and the interlinked massive violence, enabled by the denigration of life and human relationships. In a world in which "a woman's voice" exists in bodies called on to occupy important positions in corporations, government, and cultural and academic institutions, to work in factories, and to join the army—but whose bodies are systematically rendered vulnerable by gen... + Read More
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Series: Critical Mexican Studies Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures Feminist Living as Resistance Hardcover Irmgard Emmelhainz 9780826502452 $134.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 17, 2022

Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures is an homage to a constellation of women writers, feminists, and creators whose voices draw a map of our current global political-environmental crisis and the interlinked massive violence, enabled by the denigration of life and human relationships. In a world in which "a woman's voice" exists in bodies called on to occupy important positions in corporations, government, and cultural and academic institutions, to work in factories, and to join the army—but whose bodies are systematically rendered vulnerable by gen... + Read More
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Series: Voyage of the Adventure Retracing the Donelson Party's Journey to the Founding of Nashville Paperback John Guider 9780826502520 $33.95 HISTORY Age (years) from 0 - 99 Aug 15, 2021

In the harsh winter of 1779, as the leader of a flotilla of settlers, John Donelson loaded his family and thirty slaves into a forty-foot flatboat at the present site of Kingsport, Tennessee. Their journey into the wilderness led to the founding of a settlement now known as Nashville—over one thousand river miles away. In the fall of 2016, photographer John Guider retraced the Donelson party’s journey in his hand-built 14½' motorless rowing sailboat while making a visual documentation of the river as it currently exists 240 years later. This ph... + Read More
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Series: The Tao of Strategy How Seven Eastern Philosophies Help Solve 21st Century Business Challenges Hardcover L. J. Bourgeois III 9780813946542 $34.95 USD BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Grade (US) from 13 - 17 Aug 11, 2021

The Tao of Strategy combines ancient wisdom from the Eastern world’s great philosophers and lessons from modern-day business leaders to provide readers innovative approaches to unlock strategic breakthroughs for themselves and their organizations. Today’s organizational strategists—including executives, managers, consultants, and the business students who aspire to join their ranks—will encounter novel ways of solving complex problems. In this engaging examination of the wisdom of Confucius and the strategies of The Art of War,&n... + Read More
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Series: The Philip Roth We Don't Know Sex, Race, and Autobiography Hardcover Jacques Berlinerblau 9780813946610 $29.95 USD LITERARY CRITICISM Grade (US) from 13 - 17 Sep 14, 2021

Let it be said, Philip Roth was never uncontroversial. From his first book, Roth scandalized literary society as he questioned Jewish identity and sexual politics in postwar America. Scrutiny and fierce rebukes of the renowned author, for everything from chauvinism to anti-Semitism, followed him his entire career. But the public discussions of race and gender and the role of personal history in fiction have deepened in the new millennium. In his latest book, Jacques Berlinerblau offers a critical new perspective on Roth’s work by exploring it i... + Read More
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Series: More Things in Heaven and Earth Shakespeare, Theology, and the Interplay of Texts Hardcover Paul Fiddes 9780813946528 $44.50 USD RELIGION Grade (US) from 13 - 17 Oct 18, 2021

Shakespeare’s plays are filled with religious references and spiritual concerns. His characters—like Hamlet in this book’s title—speak the language of belief. Theology can enable the modern reader to see more clearly the ways in which Shakespeare draws on the Bible, doctrine, and the religious controversies of the long English Reformation. But as Oxford don Paul Fiddes shows in his intertextual approach, the theological thought of our own time can in turn be shaped by the reading of Shakespeare’s texts and the viewing of his plays.In More ... + Read More
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Series: Almost Hemingway The Adventures of Negley Farson, Foreign Correspondent Hardcover Rex Bowman 9780813946672 $29.95 USD BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Age (years) from 18 Aug 31, 2021

Would it surprise you to learn that there was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway’s who, in his romantic questing and hell-or-high-water pursuit of life and his art, was closer to the Hemingwayesque ideal than Hemingway himself? Almost Hemingway relates the life of Negley Farson, adventurer, iconoclast, best-selling writer, foreign correspondent, and raging alcoholic who died in oblivion. Born only a few years before Hemingway, Farson had a life trajectory that paralleled and intersected Hemingway’s in ways that compelled writers for publication... + Read More
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Series: The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind Thomas Jefferson's Idea of a University Hardcover Andrew O'Shaughnessy 9780813946481 $34.95 USD HISTORY Age (years) from 18 Sep 28, 2021

Already renowned as a statesman, Thomas Jefferson in his retirement from government turned his attention to the founding of an institution of higher learning. Never merely a patron, the former president oversaw every aspect of the creation of what would become the University of Virginia. Along with the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, he regarded it as one of the three greatest achievements in his life. Nonetheless, historians often treat this period as an epilogue to Jefferson’s career. In The Illimi... + Read More
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Series: The Sisterhood The 99ers and the Rise of U.S. Women's Soccer Hardcover Rob Goldman 9781496228833 $44.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Nov 01, 2021

For legions of soccer fans, the players on the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team are the game’s standard-bearers. Together their accomplishments include four World Cup titles and four Olympic gold medals. Within five years of their inaugural match in 1985, the team was the best women’s soccer team on the planet. But its rise was neither easy nor harmonious. The national team came onto the scene when team sports for women were in their infancy. The players were paid little and played to sparse crowds on marginal pitches and carried their own equ... + Read More
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Series: Look How a Highly Influential Magazine Helped Define Mid-Twentieth-Century America Hardcover Andrew L. Yarrow 9781612349442 $53.95 HISTORY Nov 01, 2021

Andrew L. Yarrow tells the story of Look magazine, one of the greatest mass-circulation publications in American history, and the very different United States in which it existed. The all-but-forgotten magazine had an extraordinary influence on mid-twentieth-century America, not only by telling powerful, thoughtful stories and printing outstanding photographs but also by helping to create a national conversation around a common set of ideas and ideals. Yarrow describes how the magazine covered the United States and the world, telling stories of... + Read More