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  • av Marta Pisetska Farley
    274,-

    New in paperback edition of this classic.

  • - The 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition
    av Philip Clements
    605,-

    On February 20, 1963, a team of nineteen Americans embarked on the first expedition that would combine high-altitude climbing with scientific research.

  • - A Source Book, 315-1791
    av Jacob R. Marcus
    414,-

    Jacob Marcus's The Jews in The Medieval World (1938) has remained an indispensable resource for its comprehensive view of Jewish historical experience from late antiquity through the early modern period using primary source documents in English translation. This new work based on Marcus's book centres the focus squarely on Christian Europe.

  • av Edward K Muller
    242,-

    Traces the Arc of Pittsburgh's Rise from Frontier Outpost to Dynamic Industrial Region

  • - Retracing the Origins of Conflict
    av James C Ungureanu
    401,-

    The story of the "conflict thesis" between science and religion--the notion of perennial conflict or warfare between the two--is part of our modern self-understanding. As the story goes, John William Draper (1811-1882) and Andrew Dickson White (1832-1918) constructed dramatic narratives in the nineteenth century that cast religion as the relentless enemy of scientific progress. And yet, despite its resilience in popular culture, historians today have largely debunked the conflict thesis. Unravelling its origins, James Ungureanu argues that Draper and White actually hoped their narratives would preserve religious belief. For them, science was ultimately a scapegoat for a much larger and more important argument dating back to the Protestant Reformation, where one theological tradition was pitted against another--a more progressive, liberal, and diffusive Christianity against a more traditional, conservative, and orthodox Christianity. By the mid-nineteenth century, narratives of conflict between "science and religion" were largely deployed between contending theological schools of thought. However, these narratives were later appropriated by secularists, freethinkers, and atheists as weapons against all religion. By revisiting its origins, development, and popularization, Ungureanu ultimately reveals that the "conflict thesis" was just one of the many unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation.

  • - Poems
    av Jennifer Maier
    221,-

    A new collection of poetry from the author of Now, Now

  • - Poems
    av James Kimbrell
    221,-

    A new addition to the award winning Pitt Poetry Series

  • - Poems
    av Oksana Maksymchuk
    231,-

    The poems in Oksana Maksymchuk's debut English-language collection meditate on the changing sense of reality, temporality, mortality, and intimacy in the face of a catastrophic event. While some of the poems were composed in the months preceding the full-scale invasion of the poet's homeland, others emerged in its wake. Navigating between a chronicle, a chorus, and a collage, Still City reflects the lived experiences of liminality, offering different perspectives on the war and its aftermath. The collection engages a wide range of sources, including social media posts, the news reports, witness accounts, recorded oral histories, photographs, drone video footage, intercepted communication, and official documents, making sense of the transformations that war affects in individuals, families, and communities. Now ecstatic, now cathartic, these poems shine a light on survival, mourning, and hope through moments of terror and awe.

  • av Ajibola Tolase
    224,-

    Winner of the 2024 Cave Canem Poetry Prize

  • av Kelly Sather
    221,-

  • av Ncolas Campisi
    621,-

    A Study of the Twenty-First-Century Latin American Novel in an Era of Apocalyptic Catastrophe

  • av Lesley Wylie
    401,-

    The First Thorough Examination of the Enduring Significance of Plants in Spanish American Literature and Culture

  • av Elaine Rusinko
    416,-

    The First Comprehensive Biography of Julia Warhola

  • av Zachary L Brodt
    242,-

    How Pittsburgh Positioned Itself as a Center of Culture and Innovation at the Turn of the Century

  • av Anne Greenwood Greenwood
    640,-

    How Paper Tools Transformed the Infrastructure of Modern Research in Prussia at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

  • av Elizabeth A Athens
    448,-

    Positions Bartram's Illustrations as Central to His Understanding of the Natural World

  • av Tara Smith
    575,-

    Ayn Rand controversially defended rational egoism, the idea that people should regard their own happiness as their highest goal. Given that numerous scholars in philosophy and psychology alike are examining the nature of human flourishing and an ethics of well-being, the time is ripe for a close examination of Rand's theory. Egoism Without Permission illuminates Rand's thinking about how to practice egoism by exploring some of its crucial psychological dimensions. Tara Smith examines the dynamics among four partially subconscious factors in an individual's well-being: a person's foundational motivation for being concerned with morality; their attitude toward their desires; their independence; and their self-esteem. A clearer grasp of each, Smith argues, sheds light on the others, and a better understanding of the set, in turn, enriches our understanding of self-interest and its sensible pursuit. Smith then traces the implications for a broader understanding of what a person's self-interest genuinely is, and, correspondingly, of what its pursuit through rational egoism involves. By highlighting these previously underexplored features of Rand's conceptions of self-interest and egoism, Smith betters our understanding of how vital these psychological levers are to a person's genuine flourishing.

  • av Kristen McCleary
    580,-

    How Theater Expanded the Public Sphere and Contributed to Argentina's Democratization

  • av Leslie M Harris
    598,-

    Navigates the Complicated History of the City as Both Site of Oppression and Space for Self-Determination

  • av Esther Whitfield
    528,-

    Reveals a New Story of Unexpected Sympathies, Solidarities, and Care in the Guantánamo Borderlands

  • av Bernard Lightman
    621,-

    A Complex and Innovative Analysis of Discipline Formation in Nineteenth-Century Science

  • av Victoria Harms
    586,-

    Offers New Perspectives on Local and Western Opposition to State Socialism and the Cold War Order

  • av Liann Tsoukas
    390,-

    The First Comprehensive Biography on a Barrier-Breaking Black Radio and Television Newscaster

  • av Cristina Herrera
    532,-

    A Literary Exploration of Chicana Coming of Age, Identity, and Belonging

  • av Gowan Dawson
    1 462,-

    Letters Covering Tyndall's Infamous Belfast Address

  • av Nico Slate
    482,-

    A Revealing New Biography of a Pathbreaking Female Figure in Modern Indian History

  • av Donna Lecourt
    546,-

    Offers a New Rhetorical Repertoire for Interactive Writing in Social Media and Other Digital Spaces. Rhetoric and composition scholar Donna LeCourt combines theoretical inquiry, qualitative research, and rhetorical analysis to examine what it means to write for the ?public? in an age when the distinctions between public and private have eroded. Public spaces are increasingly privatized, and individual subjectivities have been reconstructed according to market terms. Part critique and part road map, Social Mediations begins with a critical reading of digital public pedagogies, then turns to developing a new theory that can guide a more effective writing pedagogy. LeCourt offers a theory based in embodied relationality that uses information economies to develop public spheres. She highlights how information commodities generate value through circulation, orchestrate relationships among people, and support unequal power structures. By demonstrating how we can use information capital for social change rather than market expansion, writers and readers are encouraged to seek out encounters with cultural and political impact. AUTHOR: Donna LeCourt is professor and chair of the English Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, digital writing, teaching writing, and issues of difference in writing studies. She is the author of Identity Matters: Schooling the Student Body in Academic Discourse and coeditor of Rewriting Success: Constructing Careers and Institutional Change in Rhetoric and Composition.

  • av Agnese Codebo
    546,-

    An Original Intervention into Theorizations of Buenos Aires's Urban History

  • av Marsha de la O
    215,-

    Between Life and Death, Joy Links Human Experience to Animal Existence

  • av Tana Jean Welch
    215,-

    An Odyssey through Yearning, Transformation, and the Liminal Space that Connects Us All

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