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Examines the life and work of the artist Toyen (Marie Cerminova, 1902-80).

Philadelphia was one of America's first major cities and an international seaport. Nature's Entrepot views the planning, expansion, and sustainability of the urban environment of Philadelphia from its inception to the present.

Ilan Stavans is one of the best known and most prolific Latino academics working today. In preparation for writing Seventh Heaven, Stavans spent five years traveling through Latin America in search of what defines the Jewish communities in the region.

Marcia Bonta is a naturalist-writer who has lived on a 500-acre mountain-top farm in central Pennsylvania for twenty years. Appalachian Spring is her personal account of that glorious spectacle - the coming of the spring to the woods and fields of Appalachia.

Chard deNiord is the Poet Laureate of the State of Vermont.

A New Collection from the Starret Prize Winning {Poet Nancy Krygowski

Timely and provocative rhetorics representing critical issues of the 21st century.

The First History of the Destape as a Large-Scale Media Phenomenon and Transformative Force in Sexual Ideologies and Practices

Explores Public-Interest Science as a Potential Alternative to Commodification

The Crucial Role Urban Spaces Played in the Production of Scientific Knowledge in Dublin

Despite prolific contributions to consumer and medical technology, solid state physics garnered much less professional prestige and public attention than nuclear and particle physics. Solid State Insurrection argues that solid state physics was nonetheless essential to securing the vast social, political, and financial capital Cold War physics enjoyed.

A new collection from the award winning poet Nathalie Handal, whose work includes The Republics, Poet in Andalucia, and Love and Strange Horses.

Addresses Women's Rhetorical Relationship to Work

Provides a study of the development of Latin American literary journalism and the emergence of an original Latin American literature. Calvi connects the evolution of literary journalism with the consolidation of Latin America's literary sphere, the professional practice of journalism, modern mass media, and the establishment of nation-states.

Contains nine essays that focus on "Paradise Lost", "Samson Agonistes", and selected major prose works such as "Areopagitica" and "The Second Defense of The English People".

The Story of US Relations with the Stroessner Dictatorship

A New Collection of Poetry from the Author of the Highly Praised INVENTING DIFFICULTY, and THE TWO YVONNES.

The Construction of Medical Privilege and a New Argument about Medical "Progress"

Examines Debates Surrounding the First Articulations of a Science of Life and Experiments on the Processes of Organic Vitality

"Astonishingly honest, bittersweet, hilarious, and heart-breaking: no time like now is a book you must read!"-Marjorie Perloff

The Movement and Circulation of Materials, People, and Practices across the Eurasian Continent over Nearly Two Millennia

Reeves demonstrates that the motifs of Jewish Enochic literature, in particular those of the story of the Watchers and Giants, form the skeletal structure of Mani's cosmological teachings, and that Chapters 1 to 11 of Genesis fertilized Near Eastern thought, even to the borders of India and China.

Since the period in which the Jewish liturgy was standardized, there has hardly been a time when it was not somehow in a state of flux. Eric L. Friedland explores the countless ways that the Siddur, Mahzor, and Haggadah have been adjusted, amplified, or transformed so as to faithfully mirror modern Jews' understanding of themselves, their place in society, and their sancta.

Modern Jews have frequently clung to an uncritical faith in the state's protection, even when that faith bears no correspondence to reality. In this landmark study, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi presents the Lisbon Massacre as one chapter in the history of alliances between Jews and the powers that have ruled over them.

Transliterations and translations of the 82 tablets and fragments that constitute the collection of unpublished Old Assyrian texts in the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, together with notes and indices, giving scholars from a wide variety of disciplines interested in ancient economies access to these valuable primary texts.

This volume is based on a rich, extensive, and previously untapped source for one of the most important and fascinating Jewish communities in early modern Europe: the sermons of Saul Levi Morteira (ca. 1596-1660). Marc Saperstein provides the first comprehensive analysis of the historical significance of Morteita's texts, some of which were heard by the young Spinoza.

In 1937, the young Yiddish poet Berl Feldman bade farewell to his family in Radzivil and emigrated to the land of Israel, where he became the Hebrew poet Amir Gilboa. In this comprehensive study, Warren Bargad describes and interprets Gilboa's works at the various stages of his career and defines his place in the tradition of modern Hebrew poetry.

Administration in time of war has come to revolve around the President, and much of the administrative authority of the President is then delegated to extralegal agents. Grundstein's analysis of the experiences of World War I show that such delegation is inevitable.

Waters explores the confluences of the sensual and the spiritual, and renders their mysteries with precision and clarity. The title evokes the rigorous consciousness that prods the artist to deepen into his craft. Line by line, Waters delivers the passionate eloquence and intensity that distinguish his poems.