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    - An Eighteenth-Century History
    von Assistant Professor of History, Christopher (Assistant Professor of History & Brigham Young University) Hodson
    38,00 €

    This book tells the extraordinary story of thousands of Acadians expelled from Nova Scotia and scattered throughout the Atlantic world beginning in 1755. Following them to the Caribbean, the South Atlantic, and western Europe, historian Christopher Hodson illuminates a long-forgotten world of imperial experimentation and human brutality.

  • - An Oral History of Russia's Cold War Generation
    von Jay Richard Judson Distinguished Professor, Donald J. (Jay Richard Judson Distinguished Professor, Chapel Hill) Raleigh & usw.
    48,00 €

  • von Bernadette Vine, Meredith Marra & Janet Holmes
    62,00 €

    This is the first book in the field of workplace discourse to examine the relationships among leadership, ethnicity, and language use.

  • von University of Iowa) Cunning, Associate Professor of Philosophy & David (Associate Professor of Philosophy
    53,00 €

  • - Jews and Black Baseball
    von Rebecca T. Alpert
    42,00 €

    Here is an eye-opening look at one of baseball's most intriguing and little known stories: the many-faceted relationship between Jews and black baseball in Jim Crow America. In Out of Left Field, Rebecca Alpert explores how Jewish sports entrepreneurs, political radicals, and a team of black Jews called the Belleville Grays made their mark on the segregated world of the Negro Leagues.

  • - The Life of Tanxu, a Twentieth Century Monk
    von James Carter
    48,00 €

  • - Victorian Domestic Handicraft and Nineteenth-Century Fiction
    von Associate Professor of English, Talia (Associate Professor of English, the Graduate Center at the City University of New York) Schaffer & usw.
    53,00 €

    Featuring over thirty illustrations, Novel Craft illustrates the cultural importance of handicrafts in Victorian novels by Gaskell, Dickens, Yonge, and Oliphant.

  • von Principal Timpanist, Steven (Principal Timpanist & Florence Symphony Orchestra) Schweizer
    41,00 €

    In Timpani Tone and the Interpretation of Baroque and Classical Music, Steven L. Schweizer draws on 31 years of musical experience to explore the components of timpani tone and methods for producing it. Schweizer takes the reader on an odyssey through the interpretation of Bach, Handel, Haydn, and Mozart's symphonic and choral music.

  • - China, Writing, Media
    von Christopher (Associate Professor of French and Program Director of Comparative Literary Studies, Northwestern University) Bush & Associate Professor of French and Program Director of Comparative Literary Studies
    53,00 €

    Ideographic Modernism reconstructs the modernist invention of the "ideograph" (Chinese writing as imagined in the West) in relation to such other modern forms of writing as photography, phonography, cinematography, and telegraphy. Analyzing works by Pound, Kafka, Benjamin, and others, it recovers the presence of China in the text of modernism.

  • von Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Candy Gunther (Associate Professor of Religious Studies & Indiana University) Brown
    56,00 €

  • - An Overseas Colony of a Continental Empire, 1804-1867
    von Associate Professor of History, Ilya (Associate Professor of History & Simon Fraser University) Vinkovetsky
    50,00 €

    Interpreting Russia's nineteenth-century colonial system in Alaska, Russian America looks at how the Russians governed the indigenous people of their American colony and the ways in which they drew upon their experience in Siberia and other imperial models.

  • - The Ecology of a Complex System
    von Richard S. Ostfeld
    48,00 €

  • - Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America
    von Arizona State University) Thompson, Associate Professor of English & Ayanna (Associate Professor of English
    48,00 €

    Passing Strange offers a trenchant look at the diverse ways Shakespeare relates to race in a variety of cultural productions in the United States.

  • - How Voice of the Faithful Is Changing the Church
    von Associate Professor of Sociology, Tricia Colleen (Associate Professor of Sociology & Maryville College) Bruce
    46,00 €

  • - A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical
    von Associate Professor in Theater, Lewis Center for the Arts, Stacy (Associate Professor in Theater & usw.
    47,00 €

  • - The Purposes and Limits of Constitutional Rights
    von Ashutosh Bhagwat
    74,00 €

  • - Restorative Justice and Death Row Families
    von Associate Professor of Social Work, Professor of Social Work, Arlene (Professor of Social Work, usw.
    39,98 €

  • - The Tribune's Sister
    von Professor of Classics, Marilyn B. (Professor of Classics & University of Arizona) Skinner
    53,00 €

    Clodia Metelli: The Tribune's Sister is the first full-length biography of a Roman aristocrat whose colorful life, as portrayed by contemporaries, has inspired numerous modern works of popular fiction, art, and poetry. This study, by examining the way in which she was represented, sheds light on the role played by major female figures in Roman literature.

  • - An Examination of Explanations of Delinquent Behavior
    von Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) Shoemaker, Donald J. (Professor of Sociology & Professor of Sociology
    51,00 €

    Theories of Delinquency is a comprehensive survey of the theoretical approaches towards understanding delinquent behavior. It includes discussions and evaluations of all major individualistic and sociological theories, presenting each theory in a standard format with basic assumptions, important concepts, and critical evaluations of the relevant research.

  • - Zombies, Modules, and the Problem of the External World
    von Jack (Associate Professor, University of Arkansas) Lyons & Associate Professor
    49,00 €

  • - Democracy in an Age of Spectatorship
    von Assistant Professor of Political Science, Jeffrey Edward (Assistant Professor of Political Science & University of Pennsylvania) Green
    50,00 €

  • - An American History
    von Presidential Distinguished Professor of History, Susan J. (Presidential Distinguished Professor of History & Weber State University) Matt
    48,00 €

  • - Popular Music and the Audiovisual Surreal
    von John (Professor of Musicology, Turku University) Richardson & Professor of Musicology
    66,00 €

    In An Eye for Music, John Richardson navigates key areas of current thought - from music theory to film theory to cultural theory - to explore what it means that the experience of music is now cinematic, spatial, and visual as much as it is auditory.

  • - An African American Humanist Theology
    von Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies, Anthony B. (Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies & Rice University) Pinn
    46,00 €

    In this groundbreaking study, Anthony B. Pinn challenges the long held assumption that African American theology is solely theist, arguing that this assumption has excluded a rapidly growing segment of the African American population - non-theists. Rejecting the assumption of theism as the African American orientation, Pinn poses a crucial question: What is a non-theistic theology?

  • - Tourism, Nationalism, and Performance
    von Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts, Ruth (Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts & University of Winchester) Hellier-Tinoco
    58,00 €

  • - How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant Promise
    von Assistant Professor of History and Catholic Studies, Kevin M. (Assistant Professor of History and Catholic Studies & University of Illinois at Chicago) Schultz
    44,00 €

    While explaining the rise of the "Judeo-Christian" arrangement, Kevin Schultz shows how Catholics and Jews used the tri-faith image to force America to confront the challenges of pluralism.

  • - Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
    von Shana (Assistant Professor of History, Southwestern University) Bernstein & Assistant Professor of History
    48,00 €

    Bridges of Reform reinterprets U.S. civil rights activism that emerged from interracial efforts among Mexican, African, Jewish, and Japanese Americans in multiracial Los Angeles during World War II and the Cold War era.

  • - Women, Sex, and Speech in Tantra
    von Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Loriliai (Assistant Professor of Religious Studies & University of Colorado at Boulder) Biernacki
    71,00 €

    The role of women and Tantra is controversial - traditionally the feminine is a metaphor and actual women are absent, or it involves the transgressive use of women's bodies to serve male interests. Biernacki presents a view in which women are revered, using texts from the 15th to 18th centuries, to reveal a positive and empowering view of women.

  • - A History of the Fetus in Modern America
    von Sara (Assistant Professor of History, Williams College) Dubow & Assistant Professor of History
    41,00 €

    Ourselves Unborn examines how, from the nineteenth century through the early twenty-first century, Americans with disparate experiences, beliefs, values, and interests have participated in arguments about the legal identity, physiological condition, social value, cultural significance, and political status of the human fetus.

  • von Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Susanna (Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy & Harvard University) Siegel
    50,00 €

    What do we see? We are visually conscious of colors and shapes, but are we also visually conscious of complex properties such as being John Malkovich? In this book, Susanna Siegel develops a framework for understanding the contents of visual experience, and argues that these contents involve all sorts of complex properties.

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