1.
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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5.
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...
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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...
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7.
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...
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8.
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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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12.
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...
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13.
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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, ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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35.
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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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44.
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...
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45.
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...
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46.
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...
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47.
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...
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48.
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...
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49.
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...
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50.
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...
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51.
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...
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52.
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...
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53.
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...
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54.
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...
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55.
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...
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56.
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 ...
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57.
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...
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58.
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...
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59.
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...
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60.
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...
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