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By Catalog - Fall 2009

Title	Author	Description
After Hitler, Before Stalin	James Ramon Felak	Examines the crucial postwar period in Slovakia, following Nazi occupation and ending with the Communist coup of February 1948. Centered on the major political role of the Catholic Church and its leaders, it offers a fascinating study of the interrelationship of Slovak Catholics, Democrats, and Communists. Felak views Communist policies toward Catholics and their strategies to court Catholic voters, and he chronicles the variety of political stances Catholics maintained during Slovakia's political turmoil.
Ambition and Division	Steven Schier	A comprehensive overview of the Bush presidency, including his final year in office, measuring the trajectory of his aspirations, accomplishments, and failures. Reviews the historical position of the Bush administration, and defines and analyzes its long-term political goals. Places specific administration actions—from tax cuts to the Iraq War in strategic and historical context.
Aporetics	Nicholas Rescher	Rescher defines an apory as a group of individually plausible but collectively incompatible theses. Citing thinkers from the pre-Socratics through Spinoza, Hegel, and Nicolai Hartmann, he builds a framework for coping with the complexities of divergent theses, and shows in detail how aporetic analysis can be applied to a variety of fields including philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, logic, and intellectual history.
Book of Seventy	Alicia Suskin Ostriker	Poems that explore the territory of advancing age—its tragicomedies, its passions, its engagement with the world.
Child Soldiers in the Age of Fractured States	Scott Gates	This volume examines the factors that contribute to the use of children in war, the effects of war upon children, and the perpetual cycle of warfare that engulfs many of the world's poorest nations. It offers viable policies to reduce child recruitment, and reintegrate child soldiers into society after war. Read a Foreign Policy article on Child Soldiers by Scott Gates and Simon Reich
Cuban Studies 40	Louis Pérez Jr.	Includes essays on: the role of race in the revolution of 1933; the subject of disaster in eighteenth-century Cuban poetry; developments in Cuban historiography over the past fifty years; a profile of the work of historian José Vega Suñol; and a remembrance of essayist and literary critic Nara Araújo, who also contributed an article on travel in Cuba for this volume.
Glass House Boys of Pittsburgh	James Flannery	An original examination of legislative clashes over the singular issue of the glass house boys, who performed menial tasks, received low wages, and had little to say on their own behalf while toiling in glass bottle plants. Flannery reveals the many societal, economic, and political factors at work that allowed for the perpetuation of child labor in this industry and region.
In Praise of Falling	Cheryl Dumesnil	Winner of the 2008 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Enacting the Zen proverb “fall down seven times, get up eight,” this collection explores the ways we fall—through disillusionment, disappointment, and plain, old-fashioned mistakes, and the ways we rise up—out of personal debacles, unfortunate circumstances, family legacies, and collective struggles.
Milton Studies 50	Albert Labriola	Milton Studies 50 offers insights into Milton's poems, ranging from Comus and Lycidas, to Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes. One essay offers a new direction for Milton scholarship, examining how he may have influenced Seventh-day Adventism.
Muralism without Walls	Anna Indych-López	Examines the introduction of Mexican muralism to the United States in the 1930s, and the challenges faced by the artists, their medium, and the political overtones of their work in a new society.
Pittsburgh	Franklin Toker	Toker examines Pittsburgh in its historical context, in its regional setting, and from the street level (leading the reader on a personal tour through every neighborhood). Based on his 1986 classic, Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait, but with a completely revised text and lavishly illustrated with all new photos and maps, Pittsburgh: A New Portrait reveals the true colors of a great American city. Electronic Press Kit
Politics of Motherhood	Jadwiga Pieper Mooney	Examines the negotiations over women's rights and the politics of gender in Chile throughout the twentieth century. Centering her study on motherhood, Pieper Mooney explores dramatic changes in health policy, population paradigms, and understandings of human rights, and reveals that motherhood is hardly a private matter defined only by individual women or couples. Instead, it is intimately tied to public policies and political competitions on nation-state and international levels.
Prague Panoramas	Cynthia Paces	Examines the creation of symbols of Czech national identity in the public spaces of the city during the twentieth century. These “sites of memory” were attempts to form a cohesive sense of self for a country and a people torn by war, foreign occupation, and internal strife.
Prague Panoramas	Cynthia Paces	Examines the creation of symbols of Czech national identity in the public spaces of the city during the twentieth century. These “sites of memory” were attempts to form a cohesive sense of self for a country and a people torn by war, foreign occupation, and internal strife.
Remaking Boston	Anthony Penna	Remaking Boston chronicles many of the events that altered the physical landscape of Boston, while also offering multidisciplinary perspectives on the environmental history of one of America's oldest and largest metropolitan areas.
Rhetoric of Remediation	Jane Stanley	American universities have long professed dismay at the writing proficiency of entrants. Jane Stanley examines the “rhetoric of remediation” at the University of California, Berkeley, and reveals the definition of a high need for remediation as a tool by which Cal encouraged or discouraged enrollments in direct correlation to social, economic and political currents throughout the University's history.
Russia’s Factory Children	Boris Gorshkov	The first English-language account of the changing role of children in the Russian workforce, from the onset of industrialization until the Communist Revolution of 1917, and an examination of the laws that would establish children's labor rights.
Russia’s Factory Children	Boris Gorshkov	The first English-language account of the changing role of children in the Russian workforce, from the onset of industrialization until the Communist Revolution of 1917, and an examination of the laws that would establish children's labor rights.
Scientific Models in Philosophy of Science	Daniela Bailer-Jones	A comprehensive philosophical analysis of the use of scientific models in historic and contemporary contexts.
Scientific Understanding	Henk de Regt	Examines the essential role of understanding in the scientific process, through three key topics: understanding and explanation, understanding and models, and understanding in scientific practice.
Shadow Ball	Charles Harper Webb	Shadow Ball gathers together in one collection the best of Charles Harper Webb’s prize-winning books, as well as a selection of his newest poems.
Temper	Beth Bachmann	Winner of the 2008 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry Selected by Lynn Emanuel The elegies in Temper interrogate the way grief leaves us confrontational, in a state of fracture. Visit Beth Bachmann’s web page
Triple Time	Anne Sanow	Winner of the 2009 Drue Heinz Literature Prize A compelling collection of short stories set in Saudi Arabia linked by various characters over a 50-year span, from the end of WWII to the mid-1990s. They're native Saudis and expatriates going about their lives and loves and losses and discovering who they are and where they belong. Electronic Press Kit Read a press release about this book Watch a video of the 2009 Drue Heinz Literature Prize Award Ceremony. Requires Windows Media Player Click Here
Uncommon Passage	Edward Muller	Reveals the historic importance of the Great Allegheny Passage Trail, now a scenic hiking and biking trail that stretches from Pittsburgh, PA to Washington, D.C. Through beautiful contemporary photos, historic illustrations and a compelling narrative, the rich history of the trail comes to life for visitors (and everyone) to enjoy.
Workers and Welfare	Michelle Dion	Dion’ study examines the major political role of organized labor in establishing and effecting change in Mexico’s social protection programs throughout the twentieth-century.
World Changes	Paul Horwich	Prominent philosophers analyze the work of Thomas Kuhn, including his monumental study The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, from a broad perspective, comparing earlier logical empiricism and logical positivism with the new philosophy inspired by Kuhn in the early 1960s.