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"A clear and accurate translation of a very important work of classical poetry. This is a worthy contribution to the study of Persian literature and a proud achievement."--Cyrus Ali Zargar, Al-Ghazali Distinguished Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Central Florida

"In this excellent book, Edwards reveals that there was no top-down project to financialize British society. Instead, there were people looking to sell financial products, drive up newspaper circulation, build new businesses or careers, experience the thrill of making a quick buck, or feel the satisfaction of taking control of one's finances. We see investment as fantasy, aspiration, lifestyle, and play, and as a component of new kinds of risk-taking masculinity and economically empowered womanhood. Are We Rich Yet? is the book that the field has been waiting for."--Helen McCarthy, Professor of Modern and Contemporary British History, University of Cambridge "Focusing on the revolution in consumer financial services, the emergence of mass investment culture in British society, and the cultivation of financial institutions that became 'too big to fail, ' Amy Edwards's fascinating study expertly guides readers through the history of how those changes were brought about--and with what effects--in a decade that was the fulcrum around which the country's post-1945 history moved."--Hugh Pemberton, Emeritus Professor of Contemporary British History, University of Bristol "How did the personal become financial? Are We Rich Yet? asks how investment became everyone's business in the 1980s and 1990s. Not just a Thatcherite policy, financialization was premised on much larger shifts in mass culture and the global economy. It promised riches for all, but Edwards forensically reveals how inequalities of power and wealth were cemented by powerful investors and trading institutions. This brilliant history of the present is urgently needed to understand how inequality and precarity became locked into the contemporary UK economy."--Lucy Delap, Professor in Modern British and Gender History, Deputy Chair of History, University of Cambridge "This is a fascinating account of how financial investment moved from the rarefied world of the boardroom and the stock exchange to something embedded in ordinary life in Britain. It is a major contribution to modern British history, showing how the emergence of popular investment in the late twentieth century was as much a social and cultural transformation as a political and economic one."--Stephen Brooke, York University, Toronto "This book ingeniously joins modern British history with Economic Humanities. By applying the methods of cultural history to the subject of neoliberalism, it delivers a rich, bottom-up, and entirely fresh account of one of the twentieth century's most significant transformations."--Guy Ortolano, Professor of History, New York University "Edwards brilliantly undercuts the myth of the sustained explosion of popular share ownership under Thatcher, demonstrating how large financial institutions tightened their hold over ordinary investors' access to markets, even as they constructed a narrative of the democratization of investing. As Edwards shows, the pivotal shift in the 1980s was, in fact, a reimagining of individual share ownership as not so much an investment, but a form of consumption and even a mode of entertainment."--Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Associate Professor of Twentieth-Century British History, University College London

"America, Goddam is an impeccably researched and intensely told history of the terror, of the violence, of the dehumanization Black women and girls have faced, battled, and resisted. It gripped me, shocked me, angered me, enlightened me, moved me, transformed me. We are better because of this book."--Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist "America, Goddam is the book we have been waiting for. A trenchant examination of the history and consequence of the particular overlap of anti-Blackness and misogyny--misogynoir--that has worked to undermine the life chances of all working-class and poor Black women. Unraveling easy narratives about progress and change in American history, America, Goddam's focus on twenty-first-century iterations of the oppression and exploitation of Black women highlights both continuity and change. Treva Lindsey provides the historical and analytical tools necessary to make sense of the endless media and scholastic narratives of abuse and neglect in the coverage of Black women's stories. With extraordinary insight and elemental passion, America, Goddam is a critical contribution to the evolving cannon of Black feminist texts and scholarship."--Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective "This is not a memoir, but it's personal. This is not journalism, but it reports. This is not fiction, but you'll wonder how it can be true. This is not a bedtime story, but it will leave you tired. America, Goddam details the particular violence and specific cruelties Black women and girls endure in the United States. Lindsey maps the policies, practices, and deeply held beliefs that strip Black girls and women of their homes, their health, their freedom, their futures, and their lives. Refusing to maintain scholarly neutrality, Lindsey pours out the spiritual agony of bearing witness (and withness) to the destruction of Black girlhood. She dares her readers to stay present intellectually and emotionally even as she performs a bloody, historical autopsy of American misogynoir, which forces Black women to live the unlivable and compels them to specialize in the wholly impossible. It is not an easy book, but it's necessary. And in the end Lindsey challenges you to choose hope."--Melissa Harris-Perry, Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University, media host, and author of Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes and Black Women in America "America, Goddam is a brilliant and powerful book. With scholarly rigor and refreshing clarity, Treva B. Lindsey breaks down the various forms of violence that Black women and girls have been forced to negotiate in the United States. While theoretically rich and historically grounded, this book is also a deeply personal and beautifully vulnerable testimony. Everyone who reads this text will be informed, challenged, inspired, and energized."--Tarana Burke, author of Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement "America, Goddam is far more profoundly singular than any so-called intervention. It is more dynamic than any of our literary monuments. Lindsey manages to recast racial terror by finding the rhythm created by Black women tasked with outrunning and resisting racialized gendered terror in the United States. America, Goddam should make all of us who purport to write through racial gendered terror and liberation revise everything we thought. I'm gutted by its brilliance."--Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy and How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America "Written with insight, care, and verve, American, Goddam provides piercing insight into present-day movements including #BlackLives Matter, #SayHer Name, and #MeToo. Lindsey's voice orients us to the book's concerns through the lens of her own life experiences, making clear that America, Goddam achieves its effect through a brilliant and unbounded sense of how we can and should arrive at understandings about the origins, forces, and possibilities for resisting violence."--Martha S. Jones, author of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

"A thought-provoking analysis of the effects of working from home on the economic geography of the US by one of the leading urban economists."--Enrico Moretti, author of The New Geography of Jobs "Going Remote is a thoughtful analysis of the working-from-home phenomenon written by one of the world's leading urban and environmental economists. This engaging book provides a tour of the future--at least as Matthew Kahn sees it--and will help readers understand the social, environmental, and economic consequences of telecommuting."--Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, Harvard University "A necessary, thorough, and thoughtful treatment of the economics of remote work. A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the profound and wide-ranging impacts that remote work is likely to bring to how we live and work."--Adam Ozimek, Chief Economist, Upwork

"Alex J. Taylor's excellent and richly revealing Forms of Persuasion returns to the topic of art's relationship to capitalism in the 1960s to uncover things most scholars have preferred to ignore--Warhol's quiet acceptance of commissions, Big Tobacco's willful organization of touring shows, and many corporations' canny acquisition of abstract art for branding purposes. Through a wealth of fascinating stories, Taylor shows all the moves in the delicate dance shared by artists and corporate chiefs in a period of dissent."--Joshua Shannon, author of The Recording Machine: Art and Fact during the Cold War "Challenging long-accepted verities about the nature of corporate sponsorship, Alex J. Taylor presents a series of shifting paradigms that reveal how the relationship between business and art was transformed by the end of the 1960s. This powerful book will reinvigorate the discussion of a phenomenon central to art culture until this day."--Nancy J. Troy, author of The Afterlife of Piet Mondrian

"Olivia Milburn has given us a delicious romp through history, this time in her sprightly translation of selections from the romance by the late Ming moralist Feng Menglong. The intrigues retold by Feng became the stuff of edifying proverbs in China and they became so celebrated in Europe that Voltaire adapted one for the Parisian theater. Now, at last, readers can feel the magic in this marvelous translation of an acclaimed book."--Michael Nylan, Sather Professor of History, UC Berkeley "Written by the great master of vernacular literature Feng Menglong, Xin Leiguozhi is one of the finest examples of China's tradition of historical fiction. In this abridged edition, Milburn has selected the vast novel's most exciting episodes and presents them in a rollicking translation that does full justice to the original work."--Wilt L. Idema, Professor Emeritus of Chinese Literature, Harvard University

"Peter Shane's incisive investigation into how the presidency became untethered from democracy challenges us to rethink the executive branch's role in our government. At a time when faith in our democratic institutions has approached a nadir, Shane offers a compelling and imaginative vision for renewing and strengthening our democracy."--Russ Feingold, former U.S. Senator and President of the American Constitution Society "Provides an elegant and persuasive argument for a vision of presidential power in the American constitutional system that is true to both American constitutional history and to the demands of contemporary democratic governance. In the process, Peter Shane shows us what is at stake in the sometimes arcane debates about 'originalism' and the theory of the 'unitary executive, ' and why those positions are both mistaken and dangerous."--Jerry L. Mashaw, Professor of Law Emeritus, Yale University "A deeply illuminating account of how the relentless push for presidential unilateralism has come to threaten American self-rule and why a democracy-oriented theory of constitutional interpretation is now more urgent than ever. This book is a must-read for those seeking to better understand the connections among presidential power, legal interpretation, and American democracy."--Daphna Renan, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School "Shane persuasively demonstrates that aggressive presidentialism threatens American democracy, that its legal foundations are the products not of disinterested interpretation but of political activism, and that those foundations are deeply flawed. Shane also offers an alternative constitutional vision compatible with a democratic presidency. A profound and important book."--Heidi Kitrosser, author of Reclaiming Accountability: Transparency, Executive Power, and the U.S. Constitution "A compelling and accessible critique of ever-expanding presidential power written by a venerable scholar of administrative and constitutional law. This book is a well written, thoughtful, and incisive contribution to both academic and popular discourse alike, and truly a volume for our times. Indeed, it is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand why the presidency has become so problematic and--in particular--for those of us seeking better from our national leaders, regardless of our political affiliations."--Bijal Shah, Associate Professor of Law, Arizona State University, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law "Shane has puzzled over the parameters of presidential power for decades--as scholar, policy practitioner, and concerned citizen. Here he seeks to counter the 'aggressive presidentialism' of unitary executive theory with a constitutionally faithful construction of executive authority and the resuscitation of interbranch institutional ambitions. All those who care about accountable government--and the threat of authoritarianism--should pay heed."--Andrew Rudalevige, author of The New Imperial Presidency: Renewing Presidential Power after Watergate

"Agustín Fuentes engages readers in a complex but well-mapped journey that challenges commonly accepted assumptions about the nature of race, aggression, and fundamental differences in the desires and behaviors of men and women. . . . Readers for whom biology, anthropology, and psychology are not disciplines of practice or interest need not fret. The author masterly conveys his knowledge in an informative way. . . . If you are willing to enhance your worldview by sleuthing to discover 'who we are and why we do what we do, ' Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You is for you. Whether you agree with Fuentes or not, it will at least engage your critical thinking skills and encourage you to be a more active and discerning consumer of information."--Science "Where these myths come from, and how to bust them, is the basis of this lively, thoughtful book."--Boston Globe "Accessible, compelling, and original, this book is a rich and nuanced account of how nature, culture, experience, and choice interact to influence human behavior."--Guardian "In this compelling bit of pop science, [the author] asks readers to throw out their preconceptions about what it means to be a human. . . . It is a weighing of experience with a healthy dose of speculation and doubt that Fuentes claims is the key to uncovering anthropological truths, and thereby navigating the world as a more responsible and unbiased member of society."--Publishers Weekly "As an introductory text for students . . . the book is clear and engaging. Fuentes provides brief and understandable accounts about the basic biological and cultural concepts associated with each of the myths he lays out, as well as a set of endnotes that might encourage students to look up more material on their own."--American Journal of Physical Anthropology "Fuentes deserves praise for and success with this book. The myth-busting toolkit, which is essentially a pattern of questioning, is a wonderful device. . . . Fuentes is not just informing, he is teaching readers how to think critically."--Washington Independent Review of Books "[Fuentes] debunks some popular misconceptions about evolutionary change and provides a basic primer on evolutionary theory."--American Journal of Human Biology

A guide to Yellowstone National Park. It features more than 500 maps including topographic maps of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. It gives place name references for Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks and the surrounding region.

Focuses on the life and public sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), one of the early twentieth century's few African American women artists. This title argues that Fuller's efforts to represent black identity in art provide a window on the Progressive Era and its heated debates about race, national identity, and culture.

Are Japanese families in crisis? In this dynamic and substantive study, Merry Isaacs White looks back at two key moments of family making in the past hundred yearsthe Meiji era and postwar periodto see how models for the Japanese family have been constructed. The models had little to do with families of their eras and even less to do with families today, she finds. She vividly portrays the everyday reality of a range of families: young married couples who experience fleeting togetherness until the first child is born; a family separated by job shifts; a family with a grandmother as babysitter; a marriage without children.

Looking beyond the familiar trappings of the cult of female chastity-such as hagiographies of widows and chastity shrines--in late imperial China, this book explores the cult's political significance and practical ramifications in everyday life during the eighteenth century. In the first full-length study of the subject, Janet Theiss examines a vast number of laws, legal cases, regulations, and policies to illustrate the social and political processes through which female virtue was defined, enforced, and contested. Along the way, she provides rich details of social life and cultural practices among ordinary Chinese people through narratives of criminal cases of sexual assault, harassment, adultery, and domestic violence.

James Stewart once said, "e;For John Ford, there was no need for dialogue. The music said it all."e; This lively, accessible study is the first comprehensive analysis of Ford's use of music in his iconic westerns. Encompassing a variety of critical approaches and incorporating original archival research, Kathryn Kalinak explores the director's oft-noted predilection for American folk song, hymnody, and period music. What she finds is that Ford used music as more than a stylistic gesture. In fascinating discussions of Ford's westerns-from silent-era features such as Straight Shooting and The Iron Horse to classics of the sound era such as My Darling Clementine and The Searchers -Kalinak describes how the director exploited music, and especially song, in defining the geographical and ideological space of the American West.

Is The Marriage of Figaro just about Figaro? Is Don Giovanni's story the only one-or even the most interesting one-in the opera that bears his name? For generations of critics, historians, and directors, it's Mozart's men who have mattered most. Too often, the female characters have been understood from the male protagonist's point of view or simply reduced on stage (and in print) to paper cutouts from the age of the powdered wig and the tightly cinched corset. It's time to give Mozart's women-and Mozart's multi-dimensional portrayals of feminine character-their due. In this lively book, Kristi Brown-Montesano offers a detailed exploration of the female roles in Mozart's four most frequently performed operas, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte, and Die Zauberflote. Each chapter takes a close look at the music, libretto text, literary sources, and historical factors that give shape to a character, re-evaluating common assumptions and proposing fresh interpretations.Brown-Montesano views each character as the subject of a story, not merely the object of a hero's narrative or the stock figure of convention. From amiable Zerlina, to the awesome Queen of the Night, to calculating Despina, all of Mozart's women have something unique to say. These readings also tackle provocative social, political, and cultural issues, which are used in the operas to define positive and negative images of femininity: revenge, power, seduction, resistance, autonomy, sacrifice, faithfulness, class, maternity, and sisterhood. Keenly aware of the historical gap between the origins of these works and contemporary culture, Brown-Montesano discusses how attitudes about such concepts-past and current-influence our appreciation of these fascinating representations of women.

Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests examines the impact of the Persian Sasanian context on the Babylonian Talmud, perhaps the most important corpus in the Jewish sacred canon. What impact did the Persian Zoroastrian Empire, as both a real historical force and an imaginary interlocutor, have on rabbinic identity and authority as expressed in the Talmud? Drawing from the field of comparative religion, Jason Sion Mokhtarian addresses this question by bringing into mutual fruition Talmudic studies and ancient Iranology, two historically distinct disciplines. Whereas most research on the Talmud assumes that the rabbis were an insular group isolated from the cultural horizon outside their academies, this book contextualizes the rabbis and the Talmud within a broader sociocultural orbit by drawing from a wide range of sources from Sasanian Iran, including Middle Persian Zoroastrian literature, archaeological data such as seals and inscriptions, and the Aramaic magical bowl spells. Mokhtarian also includes a detailed examination of the Talmud's dozens of texts that portray three Persian "e;others"e;: the Persians, the Sasanian kings, and the Zoroastrian priests. This book skillfully engages and demonstrates the rich penetration of Persian imperial society and culture on the Jews of late antique Iran.