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Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man	Ronaldo Wilson	Prose poems that profile the interrelationship of the two central characters, looking deeply into their psyches and thoughts of race, class, and identity. Read a press release about this book
Nathaniel Hawthorne	Raymona Hull	A study of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s writing and life during his time as United States consul in Liverpool, England (1853–1864), his final years. View the Digital Edition
National Communism in the Soviet Union, 1918-28	Baruch Gurevitz	A unique perspective on the question of how Marxism and the early Soviet Union dealt with issues of nationalism, viewed through The Jewish Communist Workers' Party, the Poale Zion. View the Digital Edition
National Elections and the Autonomy of American State Party Systems	James Gimpel	Traditional theories of party organization have emphasized two-party electoral competition as the force behind party unity in state politics. V. O. Key first advanced this theory in Southern Politics, where he concluded that party factionalism in the South was mainly attributable to the one-party character of the region. But this traditional theory does not fit all states equally well. In the states of the West, especially, parties are competitive, but political activity is centered on candidates, not parties. The theory of candidate-centered politics allows Gimpel to explain why party factionalism has persisted in many regions of the United States in spite of fierce two-party competition. Using interviews, polling data, elections returns, and demographic information, Gimpel contends that major upheavals in the two-party balance of presidential voting may leave lower offices untouched. View the Digital Edition
Nationalism in Iran	Richard Cottam	Cottam analyzes the complex religious, national, and social values at work within Iran and examines, more generally, the turbulence of nationalism in developing states and its perplexing problems for American foreign policy. View the Digital Edition
Nationalizing Blackness	Robin Dale Moore	Nationalizing Blackness represents one of the first politicized studies of twentieth-century culture in Cuba. It demonstrates how music can function as the center of racial and cultural conflict during the formation of a national identity. View the Digital Edition
Native Americans and Public Policy	Lyman Legters	Native Americans, who are recognized simultaneously as sovereign tribal groups and as American citizens, present American society and its policy-making process with a problem fundamentally different from that posed by other ethnic minorities. In these essays, the contributors discuss the historical background, certain pathologies of Indian-white relations, questions of legal sovereignty and economic development, and efforts to find new ways of successfully resolving recent controversies. View the Digital Edition
Native Americans and Public Policy	Fremont Lyden	Native Americans, who are recognized simultaneously as sovereign tribal groups and as American citizens, present American society and its policy-making process with a problem fundamentally different from that posed by other ethnic minorities. In these essays, the contributors discuss the historical background, certain pathologies of Indian-white relations, questions of legal sovereignty and economic development, and efforts to find new ways of successfully resolving recent controversies. View the Digital Edition
Natural Causes	Mark Cox	In Natural Causes, a collection haunted by death, compassion, and love, the penchants for metaphor and resonant turn of phrase that informed Cox’s earlier work remain as vibrant as ever.
Nature and Function of Scientific Theories	Robert Colodny	Six philosophical essays discuss: a realist view of science; critiquing a core tenet of positivism; the representational aspect of scientific theories and their isomorphic qualities; deconstructing ambiguities in inductive logic; common sense vs. the world view of science; the actuality of conceptual revolutions in the history of science vs. traditional philosophy on scientific theory-building. View the Digital Edition
Nature and National Identity after Communism	Katrina Schwartz	Winner of the 2008 First Place/Book Prizefrom the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies Examines the intersection of environmental politics, globalization, and national identity in post-Soviet Latvia. Views the country’s responses to European assistance and political pressure in nature management, biodiversity conservation, and rural development. View the Digital Edition Kindle eBook Available
Nature From Within	Michael Heidelberger	Translated from German, this exhaustive exploration of Fechner’s impact on philosophy and science is an invaluable historical text. View the Digital Edition
Nature From Within	Cynthia Klohr	Translated from German, this exhaustive exploration of Fechner’s impact on philosophy and science is an invaluable historical text. View the Digital Edition
Nature in the New World	Jeremy Moyle	Gerbi examines the fascinating reports of the first Europeans to see the Americas. These accounts provided the basis for the images of strange and new flora, fauna, and human creatures that filled European imaginations. Chapters include the writings of Columbus, Vespucci, Cortés, Verrazzano, and Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo. Gerbi contends that Oviedo was a major, though overlooked, authority on the culture, history, and conquest of the New World. View the Digital Edition
Nature in the New World	Antonello Gerbi	Gerbi examines the fascinating reports of the first Europeans to see the Americas. These accounts provided the basis for the images of strange and new flora, fauna, and human creatures that filled European imaginations. Chapters include the writings of Columbus, Vespucci, Cortés, Verrazzano, and Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo. Gerbi contends that Oviedo was a major, though overlooked, authority on the culture, history, and conquest of the New World. View the Digital Edition
Nature’s Entrepôt	Brian Black	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.
Nature’s Entrepôt	Michael Chiarappa	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.
Nazis in the Balkans	Dietrich Orlow	The Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft (Southeast Europe Society or SOEG) was founded in 1940 to formulate wartime policy in Southeast Europe; its organizational life began and ended with the Third Reich. Orlow views the creation, growth, and death of the SOEG , focusing on the institutional behavior and power struggles of this microcosm of the Nazi system. View the Digital Edition
Necessary Fictions	Barbara Croft	These stories center on the need for expression, the pain of failing in artistic expression, and the ways in which we construct imaginative representations of our lives, the "necessary fictions" that allow us to live.
Necessity of Certain Behaviors	Shannon Cain	Winner of the 2011 Drue Heinz Literature Prize Told in precise, evocative prose that skewers the heart of the matter time after time, these memorable stories view and illuminate the human condition from a compelling, funny and entirely original perspective. View the Electronic Press Kit Kindle eBook Available Nook eBook Available
Negotiating Democracy	Gretchen Casper	This book examines why some countries succeed in installing democracy after authoritarian rule, and why some of these new democracies make progress toward consolidation. View the Digital Edition
Negotiating Democracy	Michelle Taylor	This book examines why some countries succeed in installing democracy after authoritarian rule, and why some of these new democracies make progress toward consolidation. View the Digital Edition
Neighborhood and Nation in Tokyo, 1905–1937	Sally Ann Hastings	In this pre-World War II analysis of working-class areas of Tokyo, primarily its Honjo ward, Hastings shows that bureaucrats, particularly in the Home Ministry, were concerned with the needs of their citizens and took significant steps to protect the city's working families and the poor. View the Digital Edition
Networking Arguments	Rebecca Dingo	An original study on the use and misuse of global institutional rhetoric and the effects of these practices on women, particularly in developing countries. Using a feminist lens, Rebecca Dingo views the complex networks that rhetoric flows through, globally and nationally, and how it’s often reconfigured to work both for and against women and to maintain existing power structures.
New Capitalist Order	Hilary Appel	Examines why privatization was so popular immediately after the fall of communism, and why it has failed in its intended goals of improving the economies of postcommunist countries. View the Digital Edition Kindle eBook Available
New Dance	Margery Turner	Dealing exclusively with developments in modern dance since 1951, this book is for anyone who wishes to understand and experience nonliteral dance: students and teachers, dancers and critics. View the Digital Edition
New Deal and the Last Hurrah	Bruce Stave	Stave disputes the theory that political bossism declined from the 1930s to the 1950s. Using Pittsburgh as an example, he chronicles the shift of political power from a once-invincible Republican machine to the Democratic Party led by David L. Lawrence. View the Digital Edition
New Natures	Finn Arne Jørgensen	New Natures broadens the dialogue between the disciplines of science and technology studies (STS) and environmental history in hopes of deepening and even transforming understandings of human-nature interactions. The volume presents historical studies that engage with key STS theories, offering models for how these theories can help crystallize central lessons from empirical histories, facilitate comparative analysis, and provide a language for complicated historical phenomena. Overall, the collection exemplifies the fruitfulness of cross-disciplinary thinking.
New Natures	Dolly Jørgensen	New Natures broadens the dialogue between the disciplines of science and technology studies (STS) and environmental history in hopes of deepening and even transforming understandings of human-nature interactions. The volume presents historical studies that engage with key STS theories, offering models for how these theories can help crystallize central lessons from empirical histories, facilitate comparative analysis, and provide a language for complicated historical phenomena. Overall, the collection exemplifies the fruitfulness of cross-disciplinary thinking.
New Natures	Sara Pritchard	New Natures broadens the dialogue between the disciplines of science and technology studies (STS) and environmental history in hopes of deepening and even transforming understandings of human-nature interactions. The volume presents historical studies that engage with key STS theories, offering models for how these theories can help crystallize central lessons from empirical histories, facilitate comparative analysis, and provide a language for complicated historical phenomena. Overall, the collection exemplifies the fruitfulness of cross-disciplinary thinking.
New World	Suzanne Gardinier	Winner of the 1992 Associated Writing Programs' Award Series in Poetry
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. Read a press release about this book Kindle eBook Available
Newsworld	Todd Pierce	Winner of the 2006 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. The stories explore America’s obsession with news and entertainment culture. In the title story, a theme park has attractions where visitors relive actual news events such as “OJ’s Bronco: The Ride”, and “Seige at Waco”. “Newsworld is ambitious and exhilarating, an original collection awake to the larger world.” —Joan Didion Read a press release about this book Kindle eBook Available Nook eBook Available
Nickelodeon City	Michael Aronson	From the 1905 opening of the wildly popular, eponymous Nickelodeon in the city's downtown to the outgrowth of nickel theaters in nearly all of its neighborhoods, Pittsburgh proved to be perfect for the movies. Nickelodeon City profiles the major promoters in Pittsburgh, as well as ordinary theater owners, suppliers, and patrons. Aronson examines early film promotion, distribution, and exhibition, and reveals the beginnings of state censorship and the lobbying and manipulation attempted by members of the movie trade. Read a press release about this book Kindle eBook Available
Nickelodeon City	Michael Aronson	From the 1905 opening of the wildly popular, eponymous Nickelodeon in the city's downtown to the outgrowth of nickel theaters in nearly all of its neighborhoods, Pittsburgh proved to be perfect for the movies. Nickelodeon City profiles the major promoters in Pittsburgh, as well as ordinary theater owners, suppliers, and patrons. Aronson examines early film promotion, distribution, and exhibition, and reveals the beginnings of state censorship and the lobbying and manipulation attempted by members of the movie trade. Read a press release about this book Kindle eBook Available
Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds	Angela Ball	Winner of the 2006 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. Angela Ball’s lyrical, wry, and rueful poems float on a river of incongruities on which we may find Ron Popeil, Lord Byron, and Rudyard Kipling sharing the same raft; they create a fascinating commerce between the sublime and the ridiculous. Read a press release about this book Kindle eBook Available Nook eBook Available
Night Mowing	Chard deNiord	Influenced by the natural, the classical, and the biblical, these poems wrestle with the universal and the sacred, revealing an urge to move toward purity and deep feeling even in dark times. Read a press release about this book View Chard deNiord’s web site Kindle eBook Available Nook eBook Available
Night Watch on the Chesapeake	Peter Meinke	Night Watch on the Chesapeake is Peter Meinke’s third collection of poetry. The poems traverse a wide landscape of topics from playing baseball, the death of a friend, divorce, and even poetry itself.
Nightmares of the Lettered City	Juan Dabove	Winner of the 2010 Kayden Book Award for literary studies. An original study of the popular theme of banditry in works of literature, essays, poetry, and drama, from the early nineteenth century to the 1920s, and banditry's pivotal role during the conceptualization and formation of the Latin American nation-state. While focusing on four crucial countries (Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, and Venezuela), it is the first book to address the depiction of banditry in Latin America as a whole. View the Digital Edition Kindle eBook Available
Niobe Poems	Kate Daniels	Now back in print, this heralded second collection by the award-winning poet centers around the Greek myth of Niobe and the theme of endurance.
No Easy Answers	Allan Franklin	Offers an accurate picture of science through the examination of nontechnical case studies which illustrate the various roles that experiment plays in science. Examines both sucessful and unsucessful experiments to show how scientists use experimental evidence and critical discussion to expand our knowlege of the natural world. View the Digital Edition Kindle eBook Available
No Heaven	Alicia Suskin Ostriker	A commentary on America, this book delves into major aspects of contemporary society and expounds upon the country’s qualities, both positive and negative. Read a press release about this book
Noose and Hook	Lynn Emanuel	“I have long believed that Lynn Emanuel is one of the most innovative and subversive poets now writing in America. Her aesthetic and artistic choices consistently invoke a complex hybrid poetics that radically reimagines the shape of our poetic discourse. The brilliant, shattering, and disturbing poems of Noose and Hook are not only wry critiques of recent poetic and cultural activity in this country but also compelling signposts to what yet might be possible in our future. This is Lynn Emanuel's most exquisite and powerful book yet.” —David St. John Read a press release about this book Kindle eBook Available Nook eBook Available
North Reports the Civil War	J. Cutler Andrews	Andrews presents the drama of the Civil War as seen through the eyes of reporters’ own diaries, dispatches, and printed news stories. View the Digital Edition