In Their Own Words

Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-98) was a French Symbolist poet, theorist, and teacher whose ideas and legendary salons set the stage for twentieth-century experimentation in poetry, music, theater and art. A canonical figure in the legacy of modernism, Mallarmé was also a lifelong champion of the book as both a literary endeavor and a carefully crafted material object.

In The Book as Instrument, Anna Sigrídur Arnar explores how this object functioned for Mallarmé and his artistic circle, arguing that the book became a strategic site for encouraging a modern public to actively partake in the creative act, an idea that informed later 20th-century developments such as conceptual and performance art. Arnar demonstrates that Mallarmé was invested in creating radically empowering reading experiences, and the diverse modalities he proposed for both reading and looking anticipate interactive media prevalent in today's culture. In describing the world of books, visual culture, and mass media of the late nineteenth century, Arnar touches upon an array of themes that continues to preoccupy us in our own moment, including speculations on the future of the book. Enhanced by gorgeous illustrations, The Book as Instrument is sure to fascinate anyone interested in the ever-vibrant experiment between word and image that makes the page and the multisensory pleasures of reading.

Half a century into the digital era, the profound impact of information technology on intellectual and cultural life is universally acknowledged but still poorly understood. The sheer complexity of the technology coupled with the rapid pace of change makes it increasingly difficult to establish common ground and to promote thoughtful discussion.

Responding to this challenge, Switching Codes brings together leading American and European scholars, scientists, and artists--including Charles Bernstein, Ian Foster, Bruno Latour, Alan Liu, and Richard Powers--to consider how the precipitous growth of digital information and its associated technologies are transforming the ways we think and act. Employing a wide range of forms, including essay, dialogue, short fiction, and game design, this book aims to model and foster discussion between IT specialists, who typically have scant training in the humanities or traditional arts, and scholars and artists, who often understand little about the technologies that are so radically transforming their fields. Switching Codes will be an indispensable volume for anyone seeking to understand the impact of digital technology on contemporary culture, including scientists, educators, policy makers, and artists alike.

"At a moment when culture's digital makeover seems to have induced epistemological vertigo in many, Switching Codes offers a timely and well-targeted intervention. ... Bartscherer, Coover, and their authors take up the challenges posed by the digital arts and humanities, mapping their new contexts, defining their analytic repertoire, and compelling a fresh set of insights. More than a portrait of our times, Switching Codes exemplifies the very logics that it explicates."--William Uricchio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A study of the American culture of reform in the Progressive Era, the book follows the career of John Cotton Dana, famous first as a librarian, then as an iconoclastic museum director. The museum he created in Newark, New Jersey, was to be an alternative to conventional art museums like the ones in Boston, New York, and Chicago.

Blackbear Bosin's civic sculpture towers above the Arkansas River in downtown Wichita. The civic monument, held in high regard by Indians and citizens at large is on a historic site where two branches of the "River of Arrows" (Arkansas River) intersect, near the Mid-America All Indian Center where powwows and ceremonies are held.

The book is about the building of the monument and Blackbear's intent to "put the Indians back on the plains." The text briefly explains events of post-Civil War Kansas and the founding of Wichita in 1870--events connected to the enforced expulsion of Indians from Kansas to Oklahoma Territory--and is the most extensive biographical sketch of this important American Indian artist thus far.

This catalog explores the structure of the Maya cosmos, the harmonious and orderly universe, through images on artifacts, mostly from the Classic period. Maya civilization began to develop in southeastern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, western Honduras, and western El Salvador around 2000 B.C.

During the Preclassic period (2000 B.C.-A.D. 250) defining traits of the civilization appeared: governance by royalty and nobles, cities centered on temple-pyramids and plazas, a pantheon of gods requiring sacrifice, a ritual ballgame, hieroglyphic writing, mathematics with the concept of zero, and an accurate calendar. These characteristics reached their fullest expression during the Classic period (A.D. 250-900). Cities in the northern Yucatán Peninsula and Guatemalan highlands dominated the Postclassic period (A.D. 900-1524) and expressed Classic traits in modified form until the Spanish and their native allies invaded in the early 1520s. Maya culture today is a hybrid of indigenous and European traits.

This volume is published in conjunction with the exhibition Art of Sky, Art of Earth: Maya Cosmic Imagery at the Museum of Anthropology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

John M. Letiche started life as Ianik Letichevsky, a citizen of the newly constituted Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The son of a brilliant but dictatorial father and a loving, cultivated mother, he went on to a remarkable career as an accomplished scholar, professor of economics, and adviser to governments.

Letiche, now in his nineties, provides an intriguing look at the changes that have occurred during his lifetime. Following his Kiev childhood and formative years in Depression-era Montreal, he completed a doctorate at the University of Chicago and took up a Rockefeller fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City. As a technical adviser to the Economic Commission for Africa he conducted trade talks with both gifted and corrupt heads of state in sub-Saharan Africa, and later shared a working White House dinner with an infamous American president. His half-century-long teaching career at Berkeley included a front row seat for the Free Speech Movement and the most documented student revolt in popular history.

Told with humor, insight, and humility, Crises and Compassion moves nimbly among weighty events and meaningful personal history, showing how "civility in intellectual exchange" came to be the guiding principle of a life of monumental experiences.

Happy Days Revisited: Growing Up Jewish in Ike's America consists of autobiographies of three Jewish men who grew up in Milwaukee during the 1950s: Gerald S. Glazer, BS'63; Jack Nusan Porter, PhD; and Sanford L. Aronin.

The three stories describe how the authors met the challenges of maintaining a Jewish identity in a gentile society, then experiencing the rise of the new teen culture. Among the challenges encountered were anti-Semitism and the conflicts between traditional Judaism and modern worldviews.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly 100 books she brought into print during the last two decades of her life as an editor at Viking and Doubleday. Based on archives and interviews with Jackie's authors, colleagues, and friends, Reading Jackie mines this significant period of her life to reveal both the serious and the mischievous woman underneath the glamorous public image.

Though Jackie had a reputation for avoiding publicity, she willingly courted controversy in her books. She was the first editor to commission a commercially successful book telling the story of Thomas Jefferson's relationship with his female slave. Her publication of Gelsey Kirkland's attack on dance icon George Balanchine caused another storm. Jackie rarely spoke of her personal life, but many of her books ran parallel to, echoed, and emerged from her own experience. She was the editor behind bestsellers on the assassinations of Tsar Nicholas II and John Lennon, and in another book she paid tribute to the allure of Marilyn Monroe and Maria Callas. Her other projects take us into territory she knew well: journeys to Egypt and India, explorations of the mysteries of female beauty and media exploitation, into the minds of photographers, art historians, and the designers at Tiffany & Co.

Many Americans regarded Jackie as the paragon of grace, but few knew her as the woman sitting on her office floor laying out illustrations, or flying to California to persuade Michael Jackson to write his autobiography. Reading Jackie provides a compelling behind-the-scenes look at Jackie at work: how she commissioned books and nurtured authors, as well as how she helped to shape stories that spoke to her strongly. Jackie is remembered today for her marriages to JFK and to Aristotle Onassis, but her real legacy is the books that reveal the tastes, recollections, and passions of an independent woman.

Few Western scholars of the Middle East have exerted such profound influence as Edward William Lane. Lane's An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1836), which has never gone out of print, remains as a highly authoritative study of Middle Eastern society. His annotated translation of the Arabian Nights (1839-41) retains a devoted readership. Lane's recently recovered and published Description of Egypt (2000) shows that he was a pioneering Egyptologist as well as orientalist. The capstone of his career, the definitive Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93), is an indispensable reference tool. Yet, despite his extraordinary influence, little was known about Lane and virtually nothing about how he did his work. Now, in the first full-length biography, Lane's life and accomplishments are examined in full, including his crucial years of field work in Egypt, revealing the life of a great Victorian scholar and presenting a fascinating episode in East-West encounter, interaction, and representation.

Faulkner and Love: The Women Who Shaped His Art is the deeply moving, untold story of America's greatest 20th-century novelist and is the first to inquire into the three most important women in his life--his black and white mothers, Caroline Barr and Maud Falkner, and the childhood friend who became his wife, Estelle Oldham. In this new exploration of Faulkner's creative process, author Judith Sensibar discovers that these women's relationships with Faulkner were not simply close and lifelong: they inspired his imaginative vision. Sensibar brings to the foreground--as Faulkner did--this "female world," an approach unprecedented in Faulkner biography. Through extensive research in hitherto unknown biographical sources--including archival materials of Faulkner's and his wife's and interviews with these women's families and other members of the black and white communities in which they lived--she reconnects Faulkner's biography to his work. She demonstrates of the themes of race, tormented loss, and addiction that permeated his fiction had their origins in his defining relationships with these three women. In doing so Sensibar alters and enriches our understanding not only of Faulkner, his art, and the complex world of the American South that came to life in his fiction, but also of the desires, fears, and unspokens that Faulkner revealed in the American psyche.

This thoughtful book offers a widely accessible account of the recent economic collapse and crisis, emphasizing the deep nexus of economic inequality, undemocratic power, and leave-it-to-the-market ideology at its root. Based on their understanding of the origins of the crisis, the authors propose a program for reform that is equally dependent on popular action and changes in government policy.

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Former banker and credit rating analyst Emily Eisenlohr reveals poorly understood angles surrounding the building of the financial bubble. In simple terms she explains over-the-counter derivatives, counterparty risk, credit ratings, and how risk management practices and mergers tie the biggest banks together. Twelve years ago Congress eliminated the barriers between commercial and investment banking. The biggest banks created a financial superhighway of risk and charged the tolls, using profits to influence Congress. Residential mortgage securitization was a major component of an even bigger picture.

When it comes to solving global poverty, people are passionate and polarized. At one extreme: invest more resources. At the other: stop throwing money down a sinkhole. In More Than Good Intentions, Yale economist Dean Karlan and researcher Jacob Appel present a pioneering, realistic, and hopeful approach. By combining behavioral economics with worldwide field research, they show how taking human irrationality into account when providing banking, insurance, health care, and education can significantly improve the well-being of poor people everywhere. "A good follow up to Freakonomics, Predictably Irrational, and Nudge," according to Nudge author Richard H. Thaler.

Athletes regularly face win-or-lose situations, but so do business leaders, soldiers, litigators, even average people making crucial decisions about their lives. What usually happens? Most people crumble under extreme pressure. But a few not only succeed but thrive under the pressure. These people are clutch. Can the rest of us learn to be like them?

According to journalist Paul Sullivan, clutch performers have figured out how to perform under high stress conditions as if they were everyday situations. How do they do it?

Are you the boss you need to be? As good as your firm expects you to be? Good enough to achieve your career aspirations?

Being the Boss can help, no matter where you are on your journey. In it, Harvard Business School's Linda Hill and executive Kent Lineback combine six decades of research, teaching, practice, and observation to provide the insights and information you need to move forward.

Some managers are content with just getting by. But most stop making progress because they don't understand how to become a great boss, what great bosses actually do, or where they currently stand in comparison with where they should be. In this book, the authors show you how to measure yourself against what's required. At the end, you will clearly understand your strengths, where you need to make progress, and how to move forward.

Whether you're new or experienced, this book is your guide to becoming the great boss you need to be--for your firm, your people, and yourself.

Haroula Rose's debut album These Open Roads has garnered acclaim in her adopted city of Los Angeles. Her 2009 EP had the title track "Someday" and was featured in an episode of How I Met Your Mother. This led to making a full album. The LP, recorded in Athens, GA, and produced by Andy Lemaster (REM, Bright Eyes, Azure Ray) is described as having folk and bluegrass elements.

A CD of Mark Volker's recent music, including the chamber works "Ghost Signals" and "Painted on the Firmament," the organ suite "In the Presence of Mystery," and "Deep Winter," a work for flute and interactive electronics.

This is a CD entitled New Music from Bowling Green Vol. IV, upon which my orchestra work "Xylem" appears, played by the Bowling Green Philharmonia, conducted by Emily Freeman Brown

This is a CD of chamber music featuring guitar, including a work by Webb called Sustenance Variations.

A fencing tournament turns deadly!

Can three young fencers thwart a plan to bring America to its knees?

Kevin Taylor, Rachel Felder, and Ben Chang are experts with a sword and can't wait to battle for medals at an upcoming fencing tournament at Nellis Air Force Base. They'll soon be battling, all right--but not for medals. Because when the three friends arrive at Nellis, they become unwilling pawns in a twisted plan to steal the most dangerous weapon ever made. A plan that somehow revolves around the tournament. Now, in a struggle for their very survival, they must find a way to stop the two brilliant arms dealers behind it all. But the arms dealers hold all the cards. And far more is at stake than just their lives...

The Prometheus Project: Trapped is a fast-paced science-fiction adventure novel for children 9-13, written to be mentally engaging and highly entertaining to boys and girls alike. Accurate science is presented in the book to further the plot, to stimulate interest in science and technology, and above all else, to fascinate and delight. The book is filled with humor, discovery, adventure, and suspense, and since many chapters end in cliffhangers, the reader will find it difficult to put down.

The Prometheus Project: Captured, is also crammed with cliffhangers, nonstop action, and unexpected twists and turns; this novel introduces scientific topics--sound and hearing, ultrasonic sound, experimental methodologies, flash powder, human memory, and superconductivity--to children while engaging their imaginations.

A third book, The Prometheus Project: Stranded, continues the adventure.

Jane is the only one who notices all the strange things happening: like a squirrel packing a suitcase, a blind man who can drive, and that adults, including her parents, appear to be hypnotized by technology.

When Jane is attacked by a man with raven-black wings, she escapes with her younger brother to a magical land at the center of the world called Hotland. With the help of a cat-person called Gaius and a dragon named Finn, Jane learns that she is the only one who can defeat an evil King bent on destroying civilization.

It's Violet's junior year at the Westfield School. She thought she'd be focusing on getting straight As, editing the lit mag, and figuring out how to talk to boys without choking on her own saliva. Instead, she's just trying to hold it together in the face of cutthroat academics, her crush's new girlfriend, and the sense that things are going irreversibly wrong with her best friend, Katie.

When Katie starts making choices that Violet can't even begin to fathom, Violet has no idea how to set things right between them. Westfield girls are trained for success--but how can Violet keep her junior year from being one huge epic failure?

This is the first book to introduce young people, ages 10 to 100, to author and activist Jane Jacobs. Her now-classic 1961 book helped people value their cities, called for an end to the wrecking ball of "urban renewal," and ultimately changed the world. In words, vintage photos, and illustrations, Genius of Common Sense follows Jacobs from her childhood in Scranton, Pennsylvania, through her groundbreaking work, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and her involvement in battles to save the very New York City neighborhoods she wrote about.

This young-adult book serves as a valuable introduction for readers of all ages to the life and work of Jane Jacobs. Even those familiar with this remarkable woman will find information and images never published before.

Boris Slutsky (1919-1986) is a major original figure of Russian poetry of the second half of the twentieth century whose oeuvre has remained unexplored and unstudied. The first scholarly study of the poet, Marat Grinberg's book substantially fills this critical lacuna in the current comprehension of Russian and Soviet literatures. Grinberg argues that Slutsky's body of work amounts to a Holy Writ of his times, which daringly fuses biblical prooftexts and stylistics with the language of late Russian Modernism and Soviet newspeak. The book is directed toward readers of Russian poetry and pan-Jewish poetic traditions, scholars of Soviet culture and history, and the burgeoning field of Russian Jewish studies. Finally, it contributes to the general field of poetics and Modernism.

Half a century into the digital era, the profound impact of information technology on intellectual and cultural life is universally acknowledged but still poorly understood. The sheer complexity of the technology coupled with the rapid pace of change makes it increasingly difficult to establish common ground and to promote thoughtful discussion.

Responding to this challenge, Switching Codes brings together leading American and European scholars, scientists, and artists--including Charles Bernstein, Ian Foster, Bruno Latour, Alan Liu, and Richard Powers--to consider how the precipitous growth of digital information and its associated technologies are transforming the ways we think and act. Employing a wide range of forms, including essay, dialogue, short fiction, and game design, this book aims to model and foster discussion between IT specialists, who typically have scant training in the humanities or traditional arts, and scholars and artists, who often understand little about the technologies that are so radically transforming their fields. Switching Codes will be an indispensable volume for anyone seeking to understand the impact of digital technology on contemporary culture, including scientists, educators, policy makers, and artists alike.

"At a moment when culture's digital makeover seems to have induced epistemological vertigo in many, Switching Codes offers a timely and well-targeted intervention. ... Bartscherer, Coover, and their authors take up the challenges posed by the digital arts and humanities, mapping their new contexts, defining their analytic repertoire, and compelling a fresh set of insights. More than a portrait of our times, Switching Codes exemplifies the very logics that it explicates."--William Uricchio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Deformed and Destructive Beings is a critical work that proposes a new theory of horror films: that the purpose of such films is to present deformed and destructive beings (also known as monsters) to satisfy the audience's taste for being. In particular, monsters satisfy the audience's desire for precisely those kinds of being that are inaccessible because they are unreal and would be dangerous if they were real. In laying out this theory, Deformed and Destructive Beings ranges across subjects that include epistemology, ethics, aesthetic evaluation, and monster taxonomy.

In this deeply engaging account, Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who helped shape Hollywood's representation of indigenous peoples. Since the era of silent films, Hollywood movies and visual culture generally have provided the primary representational field on which indigenous images have been displayed to non-Native audiences. These films have been highly influential in shaping perceptions of indigenous peoples as, for example, a dying race or as inherently unable or unwilling to adapt to change. However, films with indigenous plots and subplots also signify at least some degree of Native presence in a culture that largely defines Native peoples as absent or separate.

Native actors, directors, and spectators have had a part in creating these cinematic representations and have thus complicated the dominant, and usually negative, messages about Native peoples that films portray. In Reservation Reelism Raheja examines the history of these Native actors, directors, and spectators; reveals their contributions; and attempts to create positive representations in film that reflect the complex and vibrant experiences of Native peoples and communities.

This volume in the Shakespeare Criticism series offers a range of approaches to Twelfth Night, including its critical reception, performance history, and relation to early modern culture.

James Schiffer's extensive introduction surveys the play's critical reception and performance history, while individual essays explore a variety of topics relevant to a full appreciation of the play: early modern notions of love, friendship, sexuality, madness, festive ritual, exoticism, social mobility, and detection. The contributors approach these topics from a variety of perspectives, such as new critical, new historicist, cultural materialist, feminist and queer theory, and performance criticism, occasionally combining several approaches within a single essay.

The new essays from leading figures in the field explore and extend the key debates surrounding Twelfth Night, creating the ideal book for readers approaching this text for the first time or wishing to further their knowledge of this stimulating, much-loved play.

The academic profession, like many others, is rapidly being transformed. This book explores the current challenges to the profession and their broad implications for American higher education. Examining what professors do and how academia is changing, contributors to this volume assess current and potential threats to the profession. Leading scholars in sociology and higher education explore such topics as structural and cognitive change, socialization and deviance, career development, and professional autonomy and regulation. A comprehensive analysis of the significant questions facing this crucial profession, The American Academic Profession will be welcomed by students and scholars as well as by administrators and policy makers concerned with the future of the academy.

A study of the American culture of reform in the Progressive Era, the book follows the career of John Cotton Dana, famous first as a librarian, then as an iconoclastic museum director. The museum he created in Newark, New Jersey, was to be an alternative to conventional art museums like the ones in Boston, New York, and Chicago.

The book uses the concept of community as a lens for interpreting urban school reform since 1960. Focusing on the curriculum and employing case studies, the book applies the concept of community to reform initiatives in a number of city school system. Included are compensatory education, community control, mayoral takeovers, educational partnerships, and smaller learning communities. The book concludes with a consideration of how we can employ the concept of cosmopolitanism to change the idea of community for a 21st century, globalized world and its schools.

A new frontier of self revolves around a groundbreaking discovery. A doctor and his patients find an inner voice of wisdom--it is literally a voice--responding to all questions when asked. Breakthroughs are presented as they occur. These 24 astonishing stories are funneled into one book. Its format vividly facilitates the reader's involvement at each stage of development. The discovery challenges basic notions of who we are; the inquiry expands personal boundaries and awareness. Dwelling in the midst of each person is a presence, the most quiet and powerful voice. This consciousness is integrated, thinking and feeling, strength and wisdom, and a guide.

Journey to the inner core.

During the past two decades, Taiwan's Ministry of Education has responded to globalization by restructuring school curricular, instructional, and decision-making practices along Western lines in an attempt to attain legitimacy on the world stage. As a result, Taiwanese principals, once kings within their schools, now must share power with other school stakeholders. In the process, these principals are held responsible for implementing reform measures that tend to damage trust and confidence in the system among local stakeholders because they cut against long-standing social and organizational norms. Principal Leadership in Taiwan Schools examines principals' adjustment to their new leadership role, highlighting the pervasive tensions between collegial forms of leadership with more authoritative, top-down models common to East Asian countries.

Such dilemmas are becoming increasingly common, not only in Taiwan but in other nations including the United States. Shouse and Lin examine them based on a review of Taiwan's past and recent history of school reform, principal interviews, and school observations. The authors' knowledge and experience as researchers and teachers in Taiwan's educational system allow them to provide insightful perspectives on how to balance this precarious shift of power.

A semifictional novel incorporating terrorism, war, murder, financial collapse, and political intrigue that test one man's personal principles to the limit. The first major novel in a generation based upon behavioral science and the first ever from the rapidly developing biobehavioral orientation. Entertaining and enlightening reading for the intellectually curious desirous of understanding the how on both a societal and a personal level.

Based on the true story of a mixed-race French teenager who came to Boston in the '70s and never left, How to be a Homeless Frenchman tells a tale of two countries, France and the United States, bound together in weird and wonderful ways by war, music, and the love of good cheese. In this comedic fable, Bertrand leaves France to escape the difficult legacy of a schizophrenic mother who was orphaned by the Nazis. But what starts out as a summer semester living rent free in Wellesley turns into a series of increasingly odd and funny adventures that finds him squatting in the Coolidge Corner Movie Theater, and then living in a tool shed in Dorchester. "If your happiness is costly, then you paid too much," his mother used to say. How to be a Homeless Frenchman is an exploration of just how much happiness can be found in the ordinary joys of being alive on a sunny day.

Rome: 96 AD. When the body of Sextus Verpa, a notorious senatorial informer and libertine, is found stabbed to death in his bedroom, suspicion falls on his household slaves--a potential death sentence for them all. The emperor Domitian orders Vice Prefect Pliny to investigate. However, the Roman Games have just begun and for the next fifteen days the law courts are in recess. If Pliny can't identify the murderer in that time, Verpa's entire slave household will be burned alive in the arena. Plinius teams up with Martial, a starving author of bawdy verses and hanger-on to the city's glitterati. Pooling their talents, they unravel a plot that involves Christian "atheists," worshipers of Isis, sleek courtiers, a vengeful concubine, a child bride, and a paranoid emperor.

This wonderfully rich anthology uses the soul-shaping power of story, speech, and song to help Americans realize more deeply--and appreciate more fully--who they are as citizens of the United States.

At once inspiring and thought provoking, What So Proudly We Hail features dozens of selections on American identity, character, and civic life by our country's greatest writers and leaders--from Mark Twain to John Updike, from George Washington to Theodore Roosevelt, from Willa Cather to Flannery O'Connor, from Benjamin Franklin to Martin Luther King Jr., from Francis Scott Key to Irving Berlin.

Developing robust American citizens involves educating the heart as well as the mind. It is not enough to understand our nation's lofty principles or know our history; thoughtful and engaged citizens require cultivated moral imaginations and fitting sentiments and attitudes--matters both displayed in and nurtured by our great works of imaginative literature and rhetoric.

Featuring the editors' insightful and instructive commentary, What So Proudly We Hail illuminates our national identity, the American creed, the American character, and the virtues and aspirations of active citizenship. This marvelous book will not only be a fixture on bedside tables; it will also spark conversations in homes, schools, colleges, and reading groups everywhere.

An art history graduate student stumbles upon the love of her life and a long-lost manuscript at a medieval monastery outside Orvieto in Umbria. The manuscript records the memories of a monk, Brother Matteo, who in 1263--as a thirteen-year-old foundling, with his Master, his Lady, and his "brother," the gentle giant Giorgio--became part of an unofficial investigation into the newly reported miracle in the ancient town of Bolsena. According to the report, when Father Peter of Bohemia said the words of consecration ("This is My Body") at a pilgrims' mass, the communion host bled Christ's blood onto the altar cloth. In the course of their investigation, Matteo and his family are drawn into the political turmoil of the times, and Matteo learns that this world is, after all, a vale of tears--but also a place of miracles.

Mignon R. Moore brings to light the family life of a group that has been largely invisible--gay women of color--in a book that questions longstanding ideas about racial identity, family formation, and routes to motherhood for lesbians. Drawing from three years of interview, survey, and participant observation study of more than 100 women, Invisible Families explores the ways that race and class have influenced how these women understand their sexual orientation, find partners, and form families. Invisible Families asks how people with multiple stigmatized identities imagine and construct an individual and collective sense of self.

Who was Mary the Magdalene? Why was the Saint's legend so significant for occidental artists and writers through the centuries, especially during the Golden Age? This book aims to solve these questions by means of presenting texts previously neglected by critics and also by revising original interpretations of Golden Age canonical works, through the analysis of the representation of Mary Magdalene in Francisco Delicado, Miguel de Cervantes, Fernández de Avellaneda, and Lope de Vega. The study goes beyond national borders and literary genres and emphasizes the relationship between visual arts and written texts, interweaving ekphrasis and hagiography. Likewise, the author uses a comparative approach in analyzing the role of the Magdalene in Shakespeare's theater and Spanish Golden Age drama. Despite the vast bibliography on the saint, there existed the need for a broad and insightful study to highlight the importance of this figure throughout the Early Modern Age literature. In Spanish with notes and quotes in English.

In the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States, ideas of genius did more than define artistic and intellectual originality. They also provided a means for conceptualizing women's participation in a democracy that marginalized them. Widely distributed across print media but reaching their fullest development in literary fiction, tropes of female genius figured types of subjectivity and forms of collective experience that were capable of overcoming the existing constraints on political life. The connections between genius, gender, and citizenship were important not only to contests over such practical goals as women's suffrage but also to those over national membership, cultural identity, and means of political transformation more generally.

In The Genius of Democracy Victoria Olwell uncovers the political uses of genius, challenging our dominant narratives of gendered citizenship. She shows how American fiction catalyzed political models of female genius, especially in the work of Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Mary Hunter Austin, Jessie Fauset, and Gertrude Stein. From an American Romanticism that saw genius as the ability to mediate individual desire and collective purpose to later scientific paradigms that understood it as a pathological individual deviation that nevertheless produced cultural progress, ideas of genius provided a rich language for contests over women's citizenship. Feminist narratives of female genius projected desires for a modern public life open to new participants and new kinds of collaboration, even as philosophical and scientific ideas of intelligence and creativity could often disclose troubling and more regressive dimensions. Elucidating how ideas of genius facilitated debates about political agency, gendered identity, the nature of consciousness, intellectual property, race, and national culture, Olwell reveals oppositional ways of imagining of women's citizenship, ways that were critical of the conceptual limits of American democracy as usual.

When aging parents need help, who do they turn to first? A daughter. The Daughter Trap answers the question "now what?" and helps women successfully juggle caregiving, careers, kids, siblings, and marriage on their own terms. It's all about new options, clear priorities, and no guilt.

Based on 200-plus personal interviews, The Daughter Trap gives voice to the trials, tribulations, and tender moments of elder care and outlines what individuals, employers, and medical and social systems can do to alleviate the pressures of caring for elderly relatives.

The Women's Movement Inside and Outside the State argues that the mobilization and success of the U.S. women's movement cannot be fully understood without recognizing the presence of feminist activist networks inside the federal government. Utilizing in-depth interviews and historical sources, Lee Ann Banaszak's research documents the significant contributions that these insider activists made to the creation of feminist organizations and the vital roles that they played in the development and implementation of policies in many areas, including education, foreign policy, and women's health. Banaszak also finds that working inside government did not always co-opt or deradicalize these activists. Banaszak's research causes us to rethink our current understanding of many social movement concepts and processes, including political opportunities, movement institutionalization, and confrontational tactics, and it alters our conception of the interests and character of the American state.

Homesickness today is dismissed as a sign of immaturity, what children feel at summer camp, but in the nineteenth century it was recognized as a powerful emotion. When gold miners in California heard the tune "Home, Sweet Home," they sobbed. When Civil War soldiers became homesick, army doctors sent them home, lest they die. Such images don't fit with our national mythology, which celebrates the restless individualism of colonists, explorers, pioneers, soldiers, and immigrants who supposedly left home and never looked back.

Using letters, diaries, memoirs, medical records, and psychological studies, this wide-ranging book uncovers the profound pain felt by Americans on the move from the country's founding until the present day. Susan Matt shows how colonists in Jamestown longed for and often returned to England, African Americans during the Great Migration yearned for their Southern homes, and immigrants nursed memories of Sicily and Guadalajara and, even after years in America, frequently traveled home. These iconic symbols of the undaunted, forward-looking American spirit were often homesick, hesitant, and reluctant voyagers. National ideology and modern psychology obscure this truth, portraying movement as easy, but in fact Americans had to learn how to leave home, learn to be individualists. Even today, in a global society that prizes movement and that condemns homesickness as a childish emotion, colleges counsel young adults and their families on how to manage the transition away from home, suburbanites pine for their old neighborhoods, and companies take seriously the emotional toll borne by relocated executives and road warriors. In the age of helicopter parents and boomerang kids, and the new social networks that sustain connections across the miles, Americans continue to assert the significance of home ties.

By highlighting how Americans reacted to moving farther and farther from their roots, Homesickness: An American History revises long-held assumptions about home, mobility, and our national identity.

A sweeping three-volume, 1,200-page examination of sports in the United States from the colonial era to the present day, this first academic encyclopedia explains the process by which sports and its institutions have developed over the centuries, especially in the context of major social developments such as industrialization, urbanization, and immigration. The entries include a 30,000 word chronological overview of American sport history and 400 A-to-Z entries (1,000 to 8,000 words) that explore such subjects as art, business, class, economics, ethnicity, gender, music, social psychology, and race, as well as entries on individual sports, teams, and historically significant contributors.

The average American today consumes some 150 pounds of sugars, plus substantial amounts of artificial sweeteners, each year. How this came to be and how sweeteners have affected key aspects of the American experience is the story of Sweet Stuff. This book is the first detailed history on the subject. The narrative covers the major natural sweeteners, including sugar and molasses from cane, beet sugar, corn syrup, sorghum syrup, honey, and maple, as well as the artificial sweeteners saccharin, cyclamate, aspartame, and sucralose. Sweet Stuff discusses sweeteners in the context of diet, science and technology, business and labor, politics, and popular culture. It looks at the ways that federal and state governments promoted some sweeteners and limited the distribution of others. It examines the times when newer and less costly sweeteners threatened the market dominance of older and more expensive ones. Finally, it explores such complex issues as food purity, food safety, and truth in advertising. Sweet Stuff will appeal to those interested in food culture, American culture, and American history

Thoroughbred racing was one of the first major sports in early America. Horse racing thrived because it was a high-status sport that attracted the interest of both old and new money. It grew because spectators enjoyed the pageantry, the exciting races, and, most of all, the gambling. As the sport became a national industry, the New York metropolitan area, along with the resort towns of Saratoga Springs (New York) and Long Branch (New Jersey), remained at the center of horse racing with the most outstanding race courses, the largest purses, and the finest thoroughbreds.

Riess narrates the history of horse racing, detailing how and why New York became the national capital of the sport from the mid-1860s until the early twentieth century. The sport's survival depended upon the racetrack being the nexus between politicians and organized crime. The powerful alliance between urban machine politics and track owners enabled racing in New York to flourish. Gambling, the heart of racing's appeal, made the sport morally suspect. Yet democratic politicians protected the sport, helping to establish the State Racing Commission, the first state agency to regulate sport in the United States. At the same time, racetracks became a key connection between the underworld and Tammany Hall, enabling illegal poolrooms and off-course bookies to operate. Organized crime worked in close cooperation with machine politicians and local police officers to protect these illegal operations. In The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime, Riess fills a long-neglected gap in sports history, offering a richly detailed and fascinating chronicle of thoroughbred racing's heyday.

This full-life biography includes analysis of Adams's education, political philosophy, religious attitudes, social values, and family relationships. While his extraordinary role in achieving American independence is closely analyzed, the post-independence period, including his tenure as governor of Massachusetts, is not neglected. The core theme is that Adams was unflinchingly committed to promoting and defending republican constitutions and ideals. He wanted the revolutionary generation to bequeath a land of liberty and equality to the nation's posterity. The work demonstrates that Adams's life provides a veritable guide to responsible citizenship and public service in a republic.

Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little is a field guide for the age of the incredible shrinking message.

Some of the most important verbal messages we craft are also the shortest: headlines, titles, sound bites, brand names, domain names, slogans, taglines, company mantras, bullet points, tweets, Facebook status updates. These miniature messages depend not on the elements of style but the atoms of style. They require microstyle. This book reveals the once-secret knowledge of poets, copywriters, brand namers, political speechwriters, and other professional verbal miniaturists. Each chapter discusses one tool that helps miniature messages grab attention, communicate instantly, stick in the mind, and roll off the tongue. As it highlights examples of those tools used well, Microstyle also examines messages that miss the mark, either by failing to use a tool or by using it badly. It shows readers how to say the most with the least, while offering a lively romp through the historic transformation of mass media into the media of the personal.

This book presents papers in honor of Jerry Sadock's rich legacy in pragmatics and autolexical grammar. Highlights of the pragmatics section include Larry Horn on almost, barely, and assertoric inertia; William Lycan on Sadock's resolution of the Performadox with truth1 and truth2; and Jay Atlas on Moore's Paradox and the truth value of propositions of belief. Highlights of the autolexical grammar section include Fritz Newmeyer's comparison of the minimalist, autolexical, and transformational treatments of English nominals; Barbara Abbott's extension of Sadock's PRO-less syntax to a PRO-less semantics of the infinitival complements of know how; and Haj Ross's syntactic connections between semantically related English pseudoclefts. Encompassing a range of languages (Aleut, Bangla, Greenlandic, Japanese, and a home-based sign language) and expanding into psycholinguistics (language acquisition, sentence processing, and autism) this volume will interest a range of readers, from theoretical linguists and philosophers of language to applied linguists and exotic language specialists.

This book presents a uniform description of the entire Georgian verbal system by taking into account its historical development and contemporary features of every type of conjugation pattern. Part one explains the evolutionary path of the verb from Proto-/Old Georgian to the modern language. Then based on the outcome of this, i.e., its current features, it then proposes that diathesis--the morphosyntactic alignment of a verb and its arguments--is a much better criterion than voice (used in previous analyses) to arrange Georgian verbs into a coherent classification system. Part two then uses diathesis to organize Georgian verbs by paradigmatic realizations. This book contains an extensive glossary, tables, and an index of every known Georgian verb stem, arranged by classification and alphabetically by root. The table of contents is set up to allow the reader to quickly find sections based on a verb's conjugation class.

Despite decades of research on the reconstruction of proto-Korean-Japanese (pKJ), some scholars still reject a genetic relationship. This study addresses their doubts in a new way, interpreting comparative linguistic data within a context of material and cultural evidence, much of which has come to light only in recent years.

The weaknesses of the reconstruction are due to the early date at which pKJ split apart and to lexical material that the pre-Korean and pre-Japanese branches later borrowed from different languages to their north and south, respectively. Certain Old Japanese words must have been borrowed from Korean from the fourth century CE, only a few centuries after the completion of the Yayoi migrations, which brought wet-field rice cultivation to Kyushu from southern Korea. That leaves too short an interval for the growth of two distinct languages by the time they resumed active contact. Hence the original separation must have occurred on the peninsula much earlier, prior to reliance on paddy rice and the rise of metallurgy.

Non-Korean elements in ancient peninsular place names were vestiges of pre-Yayoi Japanese language, and Korean did not develop exclusively from the language of Silla. Rather, the rulers of Koguryo, Paekche, and Silla all spoke varieties of Old Korean, which became the common language of the peninsula as their kingdoms overwhelmed its older culture and vied for dominance following the collapse of the Chinese commanderies.

While assuming linguistic non-relationship obviates some difficulties of pKJ reconstruction, it fares worse than the genetic hypothesis in relation to non-linguistic findings, and fails to explain a significant number of grammatical as well as lexical similarities. Though improving the reconstruction of pKJ will be challenging, the theory of genetic relationship is still the better working hypothesis.

Newly expanded edition includes the boat-repairs-and-maintenance vocabulary found in Kathy Parson's highly successful first edition plus 10 new topics essential to cruising the Caribbean, the Americas, and Spain. No other source provides boaters and marine interests with the unique practical, specialized phrases necessary for communicating with port captains, marina and boatyard staff, mechanics, technicians, emergency rescuers, divers, and fishermen. The book is just as useful ashore when provisioning, banking, clearing in or out of a country, traveling inland, or using phone, internet, medical, or dental services. Completely indexed in Spanish and English, with an easy-to-use pronunciation scheme, hundreds of drawings, photos, and diagrams of systems and boat parts, Spanish For Cruisers will be the boater's essential companion throughout any visit in Spanish-speaking waters.

A Concrete Approach to Abstract Algebra begins with a concrete and thorough examination of familiar objects like integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, complex conjugation, and polynomials. The text will be of particular interest to teachers and future teachers as it links abstract algebra to many topics that arise in courses in algebra, geometry, trigonometry, precalculus, and calculus. The final four chapters present the more theoretical material needed for graduate study.

Using methods of Synthetic Differential Geometry, the book utilizes the prolongation spaces (neighborhoods of the diagonal) of manifolds to reformulate several of the algebraic notions of manifold theory into more geometric terms.

Mathematics for Secondary School Teachers discusses topics of central importance in the secondary school mathematics curriculum, including functions, polynomials, trigonometry, exponential and logarithmic functions, number and operation, and measurement. It provides a balance of discovery learning and direct instruction. Activities and exercises address the range of learning objectives appropriate for future teachers. Coauthored with Elizabeth G. Bremigan and John Lorch.

The goal of Time Frequency and Time-Scale Methods is to develop a deeper understanding of the roles of time-frequency or Fourier and Gabor analysis and time-scale or wavelet analysis, when the various tools are properly assembled in a larger context. While researchers at the forefront of developments in time-frequency scale (TFS) analysis are well aware of the benefits of such a unified approach, there remains a gap in the larger community of practitioners concerning precisely the strengths and limitations of Gabor analysis versus wavelets. The book fills this gap by presenting the interface between time-frequency and time-scale methods as a rich area of work.

How the Other Half Thinks: Adventures in Mathematical Reasoning gives the layperson a chance to see what it is to think mathematically. Each of its eight chapters presents an excerpt of advanced mathematics that happens not to use anything beyond sixth-grade arithmetic: no algebra, no trigonometry, no calculus. Each chapter begins by offering the reader a chance to experiment, to get a feel for the problem, and to make a conjecture. Each chapter concludes with a leisurely analysis that settles the problem.

Miniature Tales of Small Town Medicine is a collection of more than 100 short stories about
small town doctoring and extraordinary people. The book is accented by original illustrations featuring the work of Midwestern artists.

The House on Crash Corner ... and Other Unavoidable Calamities is about the sad, hilarious, and meaningful ways we deal with the crises in our lives. You can't spell "joy" without the "oy." True stories range from growing up in Brooklyn as the Yiddish-speaking daughter of Holocaust survivors, to my work with cancer patients, to life as a mom of two young boys, to becoming a cancer patient myself.

The rising number of children and adolescents with chronic conditions comprises one of the most significant challenges in health care today--one that needs to be met with tailored research studies, earlier assessment, age-appropriate prevention efforts, effective, targeted treatment, improved compliance strategies, and proactive involvement by family members. Chronic Disorders in Children and Adolescents was written in line with these critical goals, providing an epidemiology of major chronic diseases among children and youth (and not only the prevalence of disorders and their risk factors, but also their burden on health care systems) as well as case studies illustrating psychosocial issues associated with long-term illness in young people. For thirteen frequently encountered conditions--chromosomal abnormalities, autism, cerebral palsy, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, sensory integration dysfunction, conduct and oppositional defiant disorders, depressive disorders, eating disorders, childhood and adolescent obesity, diabetes mellitus, juvenile arthritis, and HIV/AIDS--the book focuses on these crucial areas:

• Current findings on medical and mental health complications.


• Impact on disability and psychosocial development.


• Latest trends in diagnostic, treatment, and rehabilitative strategies.


• The roles of family, peers, school, and others in coping and support.


• New directions in patient education and self-management.

Mention the term "heart disease" and most people picture an overweight, middle-aged man. Yet the reality is that heart disease is the number one killer of women in North America, accounting for a third of all deaths in women and far surpassing the prevalence of breast cancer.

Cardiologist Martha Gulati and holistic pharmacist Sherry Torkos separate the facts from the many myths surrounding heart disease and offer the latest information on both the conventional medical approach and the role of natural medicine in understanding this illness. Saving Women's Hearts examines the unique gender differences for women and provides valuable insight into the screening procedures, diagnosis, treatment options, and, most importantly, prevention of heart disease. Written by the leading experts in this field, this practical guide covers:

• How the heart works and the various types of heart disease


• Why heart disease is different and unique for women


• The known and emerging risk factors for heart disease


• What you need to know about tests and screening procedures


• Medications--the good, the bad, the ugly, the noteworthy


• Nature's Pharmacy--the role of vitamins and other supplements


• Nutritional strategies for better heart health


• The latest exercise guidelines for women


• The impact of stress and practical tips on managing stress


• The role of sleep and heart health


• And much more...

A new frontier of self revolves around a groundbreaking discovery. A doctor and his patients find an inner voice of wisdom--it is literally a voice--responding to all questions when asked. Breakthroughs are presented as they occur. These 24 astonishing stories are funneled into one book. Its format vividly facilitates the reader's involvement at each stage of development. The discovery challenges basic notions of who we are; the inquiry expands personal boundaries and awareness. Dwelling in the midst of each person is a presence, the most quiet and powerful voice. This consciousness is integrated, thinking and feeling, strength and wisdom, and a guide.

Journey to the inner core.

While we've long known that the strategies of terrorism rely heavily on media coverage of attacks, Selling Fear is the first detailed look at the role played by media in counterterrorism--and the ways that, in the wake of 9/11, the Bush administration manipulated coverage to maintain a climate of fear.

Drawing on in-depth analysis of counterterrorism in the years after 9/11--including the issuance of terror alerts and the decision to invade Iraq--the authors present a compelling case that the Bush administration hyped fear, while obscuring civil liberties abuses and concrete issues of preparedness. The media, meanwhile, largely abdicated its watchdog role, choosing to amplify the administration's message while downplaying issues that might have called the administration's statements and strategies into question. The book extends through Hurricane Katrina, and the more skeptical coverage that followed, then the first year of the Obama administration, when an increasingly partisan political environment presented the media, and the public, with new problems of reporting and interpretation.

Selling Fear is a hard-hitting analysis of the intertwined failures of government and media--and their costs to our nation.

From the start, the Supreme Court and the press have had a contentious relationship. Yet they are interdependent, needing each other to communicate the important work of the Court to the general public. Both could do better. The Court needs to provide greater, easier access for the news media, especially permitting television coverage of oral arguments, as two-thirds of the state supreme courts do. The news media should require law training for Supreme Court reporters and insist that Court stories convey the justices' reasoning for their decisions, rather than settling for easier, reaction stories.

In this strikingly original work, Paul W. Kahn rethinks the meaning of political theology. In a text innovative in both form and substance, he describes an American political theology as a secular inquiry into ultimate meanings sustaining our faith in the popular sovereign.

Kahn works out his view through an engagement with Carl Schmitt's 1922 classic, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty. He forces an engagement with Schmitt's four chapters, offering a new version of each that is responsive to the American political imaginary. The result is a contemporary political theology. As in Schmitt's work, sovereignty remains central, yet Kahn shows how popular sovereignty creates an ethos of sacrifice in the modern state. Turning to law, Kahn demonstrates how the line between exception and judicial decision is not as sharp as Schmitt led us to believe. He reminds readers that American political life begins with the revolutionary willingness to sacrifice and that both sacrifice and law continue to ground the American political imagination. Kahn offers a political theology that has at its center the practice of freedom realized in political decisions, legal judgments, and finally in philosophical inquiry itself.

As humans continue to encroach on wildlands, quality and quantity of wildlife habitat decreases before our eyes. A housing development here, a shopping mall there, a few more trees cut here, another road put in there, each of these diminishes available habitat. Unless the cumulative effects of multiple simultaneous development projects are recognized and incorporated at the beginning of project development, we will continue to see wildlife habitat disappear at unprecedented rates.

Without a conscious knowledge of what is happening around us, we will not be able to incorporate an effective land ethic, and natural resources will be the ultimate loser. Cumulative Effects in Wildlife Management brings to light the crucial connections between human expansion and habitat destruction for those managers and practitioners charged with protecting wildlife in the face of changing landscapes.

Step by step, this book shatters the myth that important environmental energy debates in the United States have been driven by forces too complex for the average American to comprehend. Although made up of a number of contributions, Robert McMonagle's book makes sense of the underlying political and societal forces driving contemporary environmental energy debates including the critical case of whether to drill for energy sources at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska.

This book aims to answer two questions by examining four case studies of the policy-making process: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; drilling on public lands in the Western United States and in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico; along with a proposal to develop a commercial wind farm off the Massachusetts coast. First, what political and societal forces have shaped modern, contentious environmental energy debates in the United States? Second, what do the findings reveal about the way in which environmental energy policies are made, about our institutions of government, and about the influences of the public versus elites in making policy? McMonagle finds that partisan voting in Congress is a critical factor in policy shifts, especially when symbols are used to define policy issues. Further, public opinion and the print media remain important factors in defining issues leading to legislative policy victories.

Young lovers from California make the trek to Chicago via the Trans-Canadian Highway. Upon arrival, they encounter a wonderful and diverse landscape filled with an abundance of warm, genuine, caring, and strange characters whose customs entertain and mystify. The years from 1966 to 1969 were a tumultuous period that witnessed the winter of deepest snowfall, the Democratic National Convention/police riot of 1968, and the aftermath of the death of Martin Luther King Jr. Reader beware: this is no straightforward history, more aptly described as a metaphorical journal. As seen through the eyes of graduate student and fledgling psychotherapist Jim Henson, Satisfaction Guaranteed: In Chicago will take you on a seriously humorous trip all around the town.

With an early 1970s setting in Oregon's Umpqua River valley, this book shares the courage, wisdom, humor, and folly of ordinary people through the extraordinary lens of a youthful mental health professional. Author Jim Henson draws upon 40 years of professional experience as a clinical social worker in the process of illuminating the lives of clinic employees and the individuals and families they served. The readers of this book will enjoy this unique opportunity to be observers inside the community, inside the clinic, and inside the personal connections between client and clinician. Think Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon or James Herriot's Yorkshire countryside and you are almost there.

This book features the story of identical twins, born in Spain's Canary Islands, who were switched at birth. One twin grew up in the wrong family with the wrong parents, the other was raised in the right family, but with the wrong twin. The psychological and legal consequences of this case, which made headlines around the word, are discussed, as is the science of how mothers know who their babies are.

This book summarizes the psychological and biological aspects of human twinning. It includes specialty chapters on legal cases involving twins, noteworthy twins, athletics, and artificial reproductive technology.

This book does for twins what Oliver Saks did for clinical patients. The book provides the science and humanity behind twelve extraordinary twin, triplet, and quadruplet sets.

Faith in the Fight tells a story of religion, soldiering, suffering, and death in the Great War. Recovering the thoughts and experiences of American troops, nurses, and aid workers through their letters, diaries, and memoirs, Jonathan Ebel describes how religion--primarily Christianity--encouraged these young men and women to fight and die, sustained them through war's chaos, and shaped their responses to the war's aftermath. The book reveals the surprising frequency with which Americans who fought viewed the war as a religious challenge that could lead to individual and national redemption.

This book is about the various issues that confront the minister after the Call from God. What are the political imperatives of a person dedicated to upholding the gospel and the ordinances of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ? Some of the issues are theological and some are social and political. For example, theologically there are the issues of election and predestination versus free will. And is election fair and what about those who have never heard the Gospel? I discuss social issues like homosexuality in society and in the Church. My concern is how these and other issues affect the minister compared to how they affect the layperson.

Much feminist scholarship has viewed Catholicism and Shi'i Islam as two religious traditions that, historically, have greeted feminist claims with skepticism or outright hostility. Creative Conformity demonstrates how certain liberal secular assumptions about these religious traditions are only partly correct and, more importantly, misleading. In this highly original study, Elizabeth Bucar compares the feminist politics of eleven U.S. Catholic and Iranian Shi'i women and explores how these women contest and affirm clerical mandates in order to expand their roles within their religious communities and national politics.

Using scriptural analysis and personal interviews, Creative Conformity demonstrates how women contribute to the production of ethical knowledge within both religious communities in order to expand what counts as feminist action and to explain how religious authority creates an unintended diversity of moral belief and action. Bucar finds that the practices of Catholic and Shi'a women are not only determined by but also contribute to the ethical and political landscape in their respective religious communities. She challenges the orthodoxies of liberal feminist politics and, ultimately, strengthens feminism as a scholarly endeavor.

An intimate sharing of a businessman's personal journey of faith and the spiritual disciplines that enhanced that faith. Includes study/discussion questions for use individually or in small groups.

A constructive theology textbook that incorporates perspectives from a variety of liberation theologians around the world.

Love, Sex, and Mushrooms is a memoir of my life in science, my quest, from an early age, to be a scientist when females were thought to be unsuited for such professions. The journey spans the last three quarters of the 20th century. It encompasses a lack of encouragement for becoming a scientist all through college until graduate school when I met the love of my life, a young University of Chicago professor, who taught me to love the fungi and how to investigate the myriad ways in which they accomplish sexual union. We married, had children, and collaborated in fungal research until his premature death. The struggle to carry on alone involved a whole new way of life leading to the realm of molecular genetics and the revelation that mushrooms with thousands of sexes seek their mates using molecules similar to those used for development and sensing in insects, rats, and humans.

A textbook for advanced student in physics. Topics include crystal binding and structure; lattice vibrations and thermal properties; electrons in periodic potentials; the interaction of electrons and lattice vibrations; metals, alloys, and the Fermi surface; semiconductors, magnetism, magnons, and magnetic resonance; superconductivity; dielectrics and ferroelectrics; optical properties of solids; defects in solids; and current topics in solid condensed matter physics.

This is a reprint of unique 1835 price book (sole original in the Metropolitan Museum of Art), detailing and pricing each step of piano construction.

It is significant for its appearance during a formative period of American labor organization, representing an early effort toward unionization, and is also important for information on pre-industrial woodworking technology and furniture design as well as musical taste.

Ongoing research in nanotechnology promises both innovations and risks, potentially and profoundly changing the world. This book helps to promote a balanced understanding of this important emerging technology, offering an informed and impartial look at the technology, its science, and its social impact and ethics.

Nanotechnology is crucial for the next generation of industries, financial markets, research labs, and our everyday lives; this book provides an informed and balanced look at nanotechnology and its social impact. It offers a comprehensive background discussion on nanotechnology itself, including its history, its science, and its tools, creating a clear understanding of the technology needed to evaluate ethics and social issues. The book was authored by a nanoscientist and philosophers, offers an accurate and accessible look at the science while providing an ideal text for ethics and philosophy courses and explores the most immediate and urgent areas of social impact of nanotechnology.

Property Outlaws puts forth the intriguingly counterintuitive proposition that, in the case of both tangible and intellectual-property law, disobedience can often lead to an improvement in legal regulation. The authors argue that in property law, there is a tension between the competing demands of stability and dynamism, but its tendency is to become static and fall out of step with the needs of society.

The authors employ wide-ranging examples of the behaviors of "property outlaws"--the trespasser, squatter, pirate, or file-sharer--to show how specific behaviors have induced legal innovation. They also delineate the similarities between the actions of property outlaws in the spheres of tangible and intellectual property. An important conclusion of the book is that a dynamic between the activities of "property outlaws" and legal innovation should be cultivated in order to maintain this avenue of legal reform.

Mignon R. Moore brings to light the family life of a group that has been largely invisible--gay women of color--in a book that questions longstanding ideas about racial identity, family formation, and routes to motherhood for lesbians. Drawing from three years of interview, survey, and participant observation study of more than 100 women, Invisible Families explores the ways that race and class have influenced how these women understand their sexual orientation, find partners, and form families. Invisible Families asks how people with multiple stigmatized identities imagine and construct an individual and collective sense of self.

In this comprehensive comparative study, Jorge Duany explores how migrants to the United States from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico maintain multiple ties to their countries of origin.

Chronicling these diasporas from the end of World War II to the present, Duany argues that each sending country's relationship to the United States shapes the transnational experience for each migrant group, from legal status and migratory patterns to work activities and the connections migrants retain with their home countries. Blending extensive ethnographic, archival, and survey research, Duany proposes that contemporary migration challenges the traditional concept of the nation-state. Increasing numbers of immigrants and their descendants lead what Duany calls "bifocal" lives, bridging two or more states, markets, languages, and cultures throughout their lives. Even as nations attempt to draw their boundaries more clearly, the ceaseless movement of transnational migrants, Duany argues, requires the rethinking of conventional equations between birthplace and residence, identity and citizenship, borders and boundaries.

It's no secret that fun is important to American college students, but it is unusual for scholars to pay attention to how undergraduates represent and reflect on their partying. Linguist and anthropologist Chaise LaDousa explores the visual manifestations of collegiate fun in a Midwestern college town where house signs on off-campus student residences are a focal point of college culture. With names like Boot 'N Rally, The Plantation, and Crib of the Rib, house signs reproduce consequential categories of gender, sexuality, race, and faith in a medium students say is benign. Through his analysis of house signs and what students say about them, LaDousa introduces the reader to key concepts and approaches in cultural analysis.

American newspapers have faced competition from new media for over ninety years. In the 1920s, broadcast radio was the threatening upstart. At the time, newspaper publishers of all sizes turned threat into opportunity by establishing their own stations. Many, such as the Chicago Tribune's WGN, are still in operation. By 1940 newspapers owned 30 percent of America's radio stations. This new type of enterprise, the multimedia corporation, troubled those who feared its power to control the flow of news and information. In Sound Business, historian Michael Stamm traces how these corporations and their critics reshaped the ways that Americans received the news.

Stamm is attuned to a neglected aspect of US media history: the role newspaper owners played in communications from the dawn of radio to the rise of television. Drawing on a wide array of primary sources, he recounts the controversies surrounding joint newspaper and radio operations. These companies capitalized on synergies between print and broadcast production. As their advertising revenue grew, so did concern over their concentrated influence. Federal policymakers, especially during the New Deal, responded to widespread concerns about the consequences of media consolidation by seeking to limit and even ban cross ownership. The debates between corporations, policymakers, and critics over how to regulate these new kinds of media businesses ultimately structured the channels of information distribution in the United States and determined who would control the institutions undergirding American society and politics.

Sound Business is a timely examination of the connections between media ownership, content, and distribution, one that both expands our understanding of mid-twentieth-century America and offers lessons for the digital age.

"A fascinating, finely researched reconsideration of the newspaper industry's response to the advent of radio. Stamm has made a major contribution to mass media history."--James L. Baughman, author of Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television, 1948-1961

A unique and useful guide to the skills necessary for on-camera journalism and public relations. With a foreword by NBC's Lester Holt, the book includes profiles of notable multimedia journalists, including CNN's Jessica Yellin, NBC's Brian Williams, NPR's Corey Flintoff, CNNMoney's Poppy Harlow as well as numerous local journalists and public relations practitioners. Includes storytelling across multiple platforms, such as broadcast, print, and online video. Addresses key ethical issues of global multimedia communication.

Jeff Rasley has trekked or climbed in the Nepal Himalayas almost every year since 1995. He kept a written and photographic journal each trip. The personal essays included in this anthology are based on these journals.

Photos included illustrate the magnificent beauty of the Himalayan Mountains and the unique culture of the high mountain dwellers. The anthology of photos and articles will whet the appetite of those interested in trekking the Himalayas.

The stories present a gestalt of the local culture and some of the interesting characters who have climbed and trekked the Himalayas. The experience of a first Himalayan climb is described as is the inspiring experience of trekking with Sir Edmund Hillary's elder sister as is the gratification of helping to finish a little village school in the land of the Rai people.

The amazing strength and admirable gentleness of the Sherpa and Rai people living within the most spectacular vistas on planet Earth create a magnetic attraction for adventurers and spiritual seekers. Rasley's love of the mountains and mountain people shows through his personal essays. But he is also critical of how the spread of materialistic consumerism has damaged traditional cultures. And he describes how some mission and development efforts with the best of intentions have harmed rather than helped the traditional culture of local people.

At the French Culinary Institute, Lauren Shockey learned to salt food properly, cook fearlessly over high heat, and knock back beers like a pro. But she also discovered that her real culinary education wouldn't begin until she actually worked in a restaurant. After a somewhat disappointing apprenticeship in the French provinces, Shockey hatched a plan for her dream year: to apprentice in four high-end restaurants around the world. She started in her hometown of New York City under the famed chef Wylie Dufresne at the molecular gastronomy hotspot wd~50, then traveled to Vietnam, Israel, and back to France. From the ribald kitchen humor to fiery-tempered workers to tasks ranging from the mundane (mincing cases of shallots) to the extraordinary (cooking seafood on the line), Shockey shows us what really happens behind the scenes in haute cuisine, and includes original recipes integrating the techniques and flavors she learned along the way. With the dramatic backdrop of restaurant life, readers will be delighted by the adventures of a bright and restless young woman looking for her place in the world.

The Sri Lanka Reader is a sweeping introduction to the epic history of the island nation located just off the southern tip of India. The island's recorded history of more than two and a half millennia encompasses waves of immigration from the South Asian subcontinent, the formation of Sinhala Buddhist and Tamil Hindu civilizations, the arrival of Arab Muslim traders, and European colonization by the Portuguese, then the Dutch, and finally the British. Selected texts depict perceptions of the country's multiple linguistic and religious communities, as well as its political travails after independence in 1948, especially the ethnic violence that recurred from the 1950s until 2009, when the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were defeated by the Sri Lankan government's armed forces.

This wide-ranging anthology covers the aboriginal Veddhas, the earliest known inhabitants of the island; the Kings of Kandy, Sri Lanka's last indigenous dynasty; twenty-first-century women who leave the island to work as housemaids in the Middle East; the forty thousand Sri Lankans killed by the tsunami in December 2004; and, through cutting-edge journalism and heart-wrenching poetry, the protracted violence that has scarred the country's contemporary political history. Along with fifty-four images of paintings, sculptures, and architecture, The Sri Lanka Reader includes more than ninety classic and contemporary texts written by Sri Lankans and foreigners.

In October 2008 Jeff Rasley led a trek to a village in a remote valley in the Solu region of Nepal, where trekkers and mountaineers do not go. In Basa Village he found a people thoroughly unaffected by Western consumer-culture values. They had no running water, electricity, or anything that moves on wheels. Each family had a flower garden, and they lived in beautiful, hand-chiseled stone houses. All they seemed to want, beyond what they had, was education for their children.

Bringing Progress to Paradise chronicles Jeff's adventures through remote Nepal: the thrill of reaching mountain peaks and of getting a good night's sleep in a warm tent, the inevitable mishaps that are part and parcel of climbing adventures, and a few tragedies, as well. But the book is more than an engrossing travelogue. Throughout, Rasley reflects deeply on the tangled relationship between tourists and locals in remote locations. In short, the locals seem to want what we have, and we want who they are. How do we promote change without doing harm?

Where are the best places to hike in the Delaware Valley? Whether you're a novice or an old trailhand, a lover of mountains or meadows, there are wonderful hikes within an hour's drive, in some of the region's most beautiful natural places. AMC's Best Day Hikes Near Philadelphia is a guide to 50 hikes in central and South Jersey, southeastern Pennsylvania, and northern Delaware. There are short, easy hikes perfect for novices or families with children, challenging treks on rugged terrain, and all kinds of hikes in between. Each hike is described in detail, with map, directions, and GPS location, with notes on trails good for kids and dogs, as well as for snowshoes and skis.

The book also includes essays on the geology, plants, and wildlife of the region, giving added context to the trail descriptions.