| Sun within a Sun | Claire Chi-ah Lyu | A sustained reflection on the enterprise of poetry, on what poetry is and might be, that sees poetry as way of life at it most genuine. |
| After the Smoke Clears | Steve Mellon | After the Smoke Clears contains thought-provoking, personal stories of hardship and endurance from five towns in America’s collapsing industrial heartland. It focuses on the complex relationships between work, loss, and identity. Includes 48 plates of black and white photographs. |
| American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance | Ernest Stromberg | The book examines the complex and sophisticated efforts of American Indian writers and orators to constructively engage an often hostile and resistant white audience through language and other symbol systems. |
| American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance | Ernest Stromberg | The book examines the complex and sophisticated efforts of American Indian writers and orators to constructively engage an often hostile and resistant white audience through language and other symbol systems. |
| Astoria | Malena Mörling | A book of poetry about the transitory physical world of the body, trains, and highways that reflects on the seamless quality of the present moment.
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| Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America | Fernando Rosenberg | Examines the canonical Latin American avant-garde texts of the 1920s and 1930s, with particular focus on Roberto Arlt and Mário de Andrade. The movement developed on its own terms, in polemic dialogue with European movements, critiquing modernity itself, and developed a geopolitical awareness that bridged postcolonial and postmodern culture and continues its influence today. |
| Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America | Fernando Rosenberg | Examines the canonical Latin American avant-garde texts of the 1920s and 1930s, with particular focus on Roberto Arlt and Mário de Andrade. The movement developed on its own terms, in polemic dialogue with European movements, critiquing modernity itself, and developed a geopolitical awareness that bridged postcolonial and postmodern culture and continues its influence today. |
| Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser | Janet Kaufman | Muriel Rukeyser earned an international reputation as a powerful voice against enforced silences of all kind, against the violence of war, poverty, and racism.
In addition to the complete texts of her twelve previously published books, this volume also features new poems discovered by the editors; Rukeyser's translations, including the first English translations of Octavio Paz's work; early work by Rukeyser not previously published in book form; and the controversial book-length poem ‘Wake Island.’ |
| Contracted World | Peter Meinke | Passionate and compassionate, these poems are both deeply imagined and accessible to the general reader, focusing on personal and political life in American society.
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| Corporal Compassion | Ralph Acampora | Acampora details an inter-species morality by examining the underlying nature of bodily experience as animate creatures and as human beings. |
| Dictating Development | Jonathan Krieckhaus | This book argues that economic success and failure in the developing world is not determined solely by a nation's economic policy but also by how they were influenced by colonialism, military aggression, international markets, and foreign aid. |
| Elusive Equality | Melissa Feinberg | Examines debates over women’s rights in the first half of the twentieth century, to show how Czechs gradually turned away from democracy and established the separation of state and domestic issues, at the expense of personal freedoms. |
| Enforcing the Rule of Law | Enrique Peruzzotti | A compelling account of how civic and media-based initiatives have successfully fought for greater governmental accountability in the emerging democracies of Latin America. |
| Exporting Congress? | Timothy Power | Distinguished scholars detail the extent to which the US Congress has influenced democractic legislatures around the world, and the myriad factors involved in the diffusion of influence. Includes the governments of Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, the European Parliament, plus new democracies in Latin America and Eastern Europe. |
| Four Decades of Scientific Explanation | Wesley Salmon | First published in 1989, this book presents and analyzes the dramatic changes in philosophical conceptions of scientific explanation after the landmark 1948 essayStudies in the Logic of Explanation by Carl Hempel and Paul Oppenheim. |
| Green Republican | Thomas Smith | A biography of John P. Saylor, a Republican congressman from Pennsylvania who became a prominent conservationist in the three decades after World War II. |
| Industry in Art | Rina Youngner | Youngner examines the tranformation of the depiction of industry in 19th century Pittsburgh from environmental nuisance to an idealized glorification of industrial might, in both fine art and illustration. |
| Interrogation Palace | David Wojahn | A career-spanning selection of work by a widely respected American poet, including a generous gathering of new poems.
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| Managing Literacy, Mothering America | Sarah Robbins | Sarah Robbins identifies and defines a new genre in American letters—the domestic literacy narrative—and provides a cultural history of its development throughout the nineteenth century.
Winner of an Outstanding Academic Title Award from Choice Magazine (2006). |
| Metamorphosis of Heads | Denise Arnold | Provides a comprehensive ethnography of writing in the Andes, and details the relationship between Andean peoples’ struggle to preserve their indigenous textual forms in the face of Western cirricula, with their struggle for land and power. |
| My Brother is Getting Arrested Again | Daisy Fried | A new more mature Daisy Fried, writing about grown-up problems with the same insouciance and even more range and skill.
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| Newsrooms in Conflict | Sallie Hughes | Examines the dramatic changes within Mexican society, politics, and journalism that transformed an authoritarian media institution into many conflicting styles of journalism with very different implications for deepening democracy in the country.
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| Pittsburgh and the Appalachians | Joseph Scarpaci | The book assesses how Pittsburgh deindustrialization over the past decades has posed both opportunities and challenges for the city and surrounding tri-state area. |
| State and Society in Conflict | Paul Drake | This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the crisis of relations between state and society in five Andean countries from the 1980s to the present. |
| Toward a Civil Discourse | Sharon Crowley | Looks at ways to encourage American public discussion of issues that matter to democracy, particularly hoping to find arguments that can reach across the divide between liberalism and Christian fundamentalism in the discussion of civic issues.
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| Under the Influence | Kate Transchel | This book examines a highly significant chapter in the history of the Russian state and society: how those in power in Russian understood the impact of drinking on the state policy and on Russia’s working classes between 1895 and 1932. |
| World Observed/The World Conceived | Hans Radder | Provides an innovative analysis of the nature and interplay of observation and conceptualization. Radder shows that observation is always conceptually interpreted, and concepts affect the way observational processes are conducted in the first place. |
