This text examines the ways the great literature and cultural work of the past has been rewritten for the consumer society.…

• Rok vydání 2019

Avoiding reductionistic solutions, and without losing sight of how our lives and those of others are caught up in the moral…

A document of Depression-era Los Angeles, that illuminates a pivotal moment in L A's history, when writers like Raymond…

Presents a journey into the lived reality of prison for women in the United States. This book uncovers the complex gendered…

This work is a vision of wilderness in the Klamath Mountains of northwest California and southwest Oregon, seen through the…

Although media coverage and some scholars tend to cast natural resource shortages as leading inexorably toward armed…

Delves into the multifaceted identities of second-generation Nigerian adults in the United States and Britain. The author…

Focuses on the state of liberty and shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny - and the rights of habeas corpus,…

Integrating the authors' own research with the advanced thinking in the behavioral and social sciences - including…

Theodor W Adorno (1903-1969), one of the principal figures associated with the Frankfurt School, wrote extensively on…

This work brings together the three volumes of Olson's long poem (originally published in 1960, 1968 and 1975 respectively)…

This set includes two essential resources for writers and editors: The Copyeditor's Handbook, now in its fourth edition, and…

A wide-ranging anthology of ethnopoetry including origin texts, visionary texts, texts about death, texts about…

Gives student and instructors the comprehensive and accessible presentation of ancient Greek. This title features: readings…

Provides an introduction to the critical theory of German Romanticism and demonstrates how its approach to the metaphorical…

Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life and death to argue thatthe promotion of social and economic rights of…

Examines how Hollywood defined and constructed female stars as especially young - as juvenated - during its long half…

At the end of WWII, several Latin American countries seemed to be ready for industrialization. Instead, they found that they…

An ethnography of pregnancy and birth at a large New York City public hospital, that explores the role of race in the…

Features essays that address the question of how the Jewish experience can challenge the conventional polar opposition…

Products of the "imagination," such as novels, can be especially useful tools for understanding how things work in societies…

Explores the railroad's development and influence - especially as it affected land settlement, agriculture, water policy,…

Shows that there is a growing divergence between the factors that determine people's well-being and trends in measured GNP.…

Analyzes the complex and conflicting forms of sociality that Guhu-Samane Christians of rural Papua New Guinea privilege and…

Can one teacher truly make a difference in her students' lives when everything is working against them? Can a love for…

Offers a study of sounds that aims to write the resonance and response they call for. This book critiques on the existing…

Philip Whalen was an American poet, Zen Buddhist, and key figure in the literary and artistic scene that unfolded in San…

Probes the richly complex gender dynamics of youth sports. This book finds that despite the movement of girls into sports,…

Offering a history of youth culture based on interviews with former zoot-suiters, this book explores race, region, and the…

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We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this title, the…

Presents the works of seventeen poets, including a selection of archaic lyric and the complete surviving works of the…

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Few events in American politics have generated more attention than the increasing number of voters calling themselves…

Brings together all of the poems in auhtor's Age of Huts cycle, including Ketjak, Sunset Debris, The Chinese Notebook, and…

Suitable for students, teachers, and general readers interested in the future of history, this book includes such topics as…