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An election-year guide to understanding the language of the electeds, spin-meisters, and flacks of American politics

A handful of sea stories define the American maritime narrative. Stories of whaling, fishing, exploration, naval adventure, and piracy have always captured our imaginations, and the most colorful of these are the tales of piracy.

In Why the Grateful Dead Matter, veteran writer and lifelong Deadhead Michael Benson argues that the Grateful Dead are not simply a successful rock-and-roll band but a phenomenon central to American culture.

A distinctive American subculture responds to the forces of social change.

A timely story of whistleblowing in wartime

Now in paperback, the New York Times best-selling biography of the legendary Revolutionary War patriot and America's first spy

The updated edition of a classic contemporary account of Vermont's environmental history, told through the interaction of natural and human components

Short stories explore cultural change and class conflict in contemporary West Virginia.

A leading Frost critic guides the reader through some of the poet's most challenging verse.

A diverse collection of essays and interviews from one of literature's most iconic voices.

Keith Thomas's earlier studies in the ethnography of early modern England, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Ends of Life, were all attempts to explore beliefs, values, and social practices in the centuries from 1500 to 1800. In Pursuit of Civility continues this quest by examining what English people thought it meant to be "civilized" and how that condition differed from being "barbarous" or "savage." Thomas shows that the upper ranks of society sought to distinguish themselves from their social inferiors by distinctive ways of moving, speaking, and comporting themselves, and that the common people developed their own form of civility. The belief of the English in their superior civility shaped their relations with the Welsh, the Scots, and the Irish, and was fundamental to their dealings with the native peoples of North America, India, and Australia. Yet not everyone shared this belief in the superiority of Western civilization; the book sheds light on the origins of both anticolonialism and cultural relativism. Thomas has written an accessible history based on wide reading, abounding in fresh insights, and illustrated by many striking quotations and anecdotes from contemporary sources.

A new edition of a bestselling book looking at the history of Boston through fifty artifacts.

A dramatic story of the interplay between environment and economy in New England.

How turning writing into a habit is the best tool an author can possess.

A book for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the natural world

Using the teachings of such influential men as Vico to Aries to Foucault, Patrick H. Hutton surveys the ways in which the art of memory has become integrated into historical thinking.

A clear and detailed study of Latin American women's history from the late nineteenth century to the present.

A revolutionary reconceptualization of capital and perception during the twentieth century.

Essays forging a new definition of Romanticism that includes the wide range of women's artistic expression.

Not one word comes back to talk me out of pain," the book delivers a vision of love that is boldly political and laced with a tumultuous hope that promises: "Revolution is bigger than both of us, revolution is a science that infers the future presence of us."

"Delany's books interweave science fiction with histories of race, sexuality, and control. This anthology of essays, lectures, and interviews addresses topics such as 9/11, race, the garden of Eden, the interplay of life and writing, and notes on other writers such as Theodore Sturgeon, Hart Crane, Ursula K.

Provokes a public debate about heightism, its detrimental effects, and how to reshape society's view and treatment of short people

Focusing on three collectives known locally as "cultural groups," which specialize in the music and dance traditions of the Maroons, it marks a vital contribution to knowledge about the cultural map of the African diaspora in South America, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

7/15/95 Paris Xicancuicatl collects the poetry of leading avant-garde Chicanx poet Alfred Arteaga (1950-2008), whom French philosopher Gilles Deleuze regarded as "among those rare poets who are able to raise or shape a new language within their language."

A collection of original haiku from a preeminent Native American poet and novelist

The poems in this brilliant follow-up to the National Book Award finalist Archeophonics, are concerned with grieving, with poetry and death, with beauty and sadness, with light. As Ben Lerner has written, "Gizzi's poetry is an example of how a poet's total tonal attention can disclose new orders of sensation and meaning.