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Tage Erlander	Michael Metcalf	The definitive political biography of Swedish prime minister Tage Erlander. This book is both the study of an individual style of leadership and the role of the prime minister in a parliamentary state. It shows Erlander as a complex and engaging intellectual fiercely loyal to his party, agitative yet dedicated to cooperation between parties. View the Digital Edition
Tage Erlander	Olof Ruin	The definitive political biography of Swedish prime minister Tage Erlander. This book is both the study of an individual style of leadership and the role of the prime minister in a parliamentary state. It shows Erlander as a complex and engaging intellectual fiercely loyal to his party, agitative yet dedicated to cooperation between parties. View the Digital Edition
Tashkent	Paul Stronski	Paul Stronski tells the fascinating story of Tashkent, an ethnically diverse, primarily Muslim city that became the prototype for the Soviet-era reimagining of urban centers in Central Asia. Stronski shows how Soviet officials, planners, and architects strived to integrate local ethnic traditions and socialist ideology into a newly constructed urban space and propaganda showcase. Winner of the 2011 Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award in history and the humanities. Kindle eBook Available
Tashkent	Paul Stronski	Paul Stronski tells the fascinating story of Tashkent, an ethnically diverse, primarily Muslim city that became the prototype for the Soviet-era reimagining of urban centers in Central Asia. Stronski shows how Soviet officials, planners, and architects strived to integrate local ethnic traditions and socialist ideology into a newly constructed urban space and propaganda showcase. Winner of the 2011 Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award in history and the humanities. Kindle eBook Available
Task of the Interpreter	Pol Vandevelde	By examining the interpretation of a wide variety of materials, such as works in translation and literary fiction, Pol Vandevelde presents a new approach to interpretation that reconciles the possibility of multiple interpretations with the need to consider an author’s intent. View the Digital Edition Kindle eBook Available
Techniques for Observing Normal Child Behavior	Nancy Carbonara	A handbook of standard techniques for observing children’s behavior in nursery school settings -- it is also applicable to children in club groups, elementary school classrooms, and hospitals.
Teenie Harris, Photographer	Laurence Glasco	Published in cooperation with Carnegie Museum of Art With an introduction by Deborah Willis Read a press release about this book The famous faces of Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, and John F. Kennedy appear among the nearly eighty thousand photographs of Charles “Teenie” Harris (1908–1998). But it’s in the images of other, ordinary people and neighborhoods that Harris shows us a city and an era teeming with energy, culture, friendship, and family. Harris captured the essence of African American life in Pittsburgh, and his work in Pittsburgh’s Hill District surpasses that of all other photographers in its breadth and rich portrayal of black urban America. Winner of the 2012 BCALA Literary Award
Teenie Harris, Photographer	Laurence Glasco	Published in cooperation with Carnegie Museum of Art With an introduction by Deborah Willis Read a press release about this book The famous faces of Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, and John F. Kennedy appear among the nearly eighty thousand photographs of Charles “Teenie” Harris (1908–1998). But it’s in the images of other, ordinary people and neighborhoods that Harris shows us a city and an era teeming with energy, culture, friendship, and family. Harris captured the essence of African American life in Pittsburgh, and his work in Pittsburgh’s Hill District surpasses that of all other photographers in its breadth and rich portrayal of black urban America. Winner of the 2012 BCALA Literary Award
Teenie Harris, Photographer	Cheryl Finley	Published in cooperation with Carnegie Museum of Art With an introduction by Deborah Willis Read a press release about this book The famous faces of Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, and John F. Kennedy appear among the nearly eighty thousand photographs of Charles “Teenie” Harris (1908–1998). But it’s in the images of other, ordinary people and neighborhoods that Harris shows us a city and an era teeming with energy, culture, friendship, and family. Harris captured the essence of African American life in Pittsburgh, and his work in Pittsburgh’s Hill District surpasses that of all other photographers in its breadth and rich portrayal of black urban America. Winner of the 2012 BCALA Literary Award
Teenie Harris, Photographer	Cheryl Finley	Published in cooperation with Carnegie Museum of Art With an introduction by Deborah Willis Read a press release about this book The famous faces of Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, and John F. Kennedy appear among the nearly eighty thousand photographs of Charles “Teenie” Harris (1908–1998). But it’s in the images of other, ordinary people and neighborhoods that Harris shows us a city and an era teeming with energy, culture, friendship, and family. Harris captured the essence of African American life in Pittsburgh, and his work in Pittsburgh’s Hill District surpasses that of all other photographers in its breadth and rich portrayal of black urban America. Winner of the 2012 BCALA Literary Award
Teenie Harris, Photographer	Joe Trotter	Published in cooperation with Carnegie Museum of Art With an introduction by Deborah Willis Read a press release about this book The famous faces of Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, and John F. Kennedy appear among the nearly eighty thousand photographs of Charles “Teenie” Harris (1908–1998). But it’s in the images of other, ordinary people and neighborhoods that Harris shows us a city and an era teeming with energy, culture, friendship, and family. Harris captured the essence of African American life in Pittsburgh, and his work in Pittsburgh’s Hill District surpasses that of all other photographers in its breadth and rich portrayal of black urban America. Winner of the 2012 BCALA Literary Award
Teenie Harris, Photographer	Joe Trotter	Published in cooperation with Carnegie Museum of Art With an introduction by Deborah Willis Read a press release about this book The famous faces of Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, and John F. Kennedy appear among the nearly eighty thousand photographs of Charles “Teenie” Harris (1908–1998). But it’s in the images of other, ordinary people and neighborhoods that Harris shows us a city and an era teeming with energy, culture, friendship, and family. Harris captured the essence of African American life in Pittsburgh, and his work in Pittsburgh’s Hill District surpasses that of all other photographers in its breadth and rich portrayal of black urban America. Winner of the 2012 BCALA Literary Award
Temper	Beth Bachmann	Winner of the 2008 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry Selected by Lynn Emanuel Winner of the 2010 Kate Tufts Discovery Award The elegies in Temper interrogate the way grief leaves us confrontational, in a state of fracture. Visit Beth Bachmann’s web page Read a press release about this book Kindle eBook Available Nook eBook Available
Tempering	Gloria Skurzynski	A classic in children’s literature, award winning The Tempering, set in 1912, tells the story of Karl Kerner who must choose between leaving school for a life in the mills or continuing with his education. Young readers will gain an understanding of how strength and spirit created and sustained a community of people who lived, worked, and died with the making of steel.
Tender	Toi Derricotte	Toi Derricotte’s fourth collection of poetry. Tender probes sexuality, spirituality, emotion, child abuse, mother hatred, and the physical and psychological ravages of violence. These poems are raw and upsetting in subject matter, yet extremely readable.
Thaddeus Mosley	David Lewis	Thaddeus Mosley is a self-taught African American sculptor from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Written by his friend of twenty-five years, this book offers insight and a deep understanding of the life and work of this remarkable man.
Thatcher, Reagan, and Mulroney	Donald Savoie	Savoie examines the war of bureaucratic reform waged by the leaders of theree major industrial countries. Reagan, Thatcher and Mulroney were equally committed to reform and initiated wide-ranging changes. By the end of the 1990s, the changes were dramatic. Many governments operations had been privatized, and new management techniques had been introduced. Savoie suggests that the reforms overlooked problems now urgently requiring attention and, at the same time, attempted to address non-existent problems. He combines theory and research based on sixty-two interviews, nearly all with members of the executive branch of the governments of Britain, Canada and the United States. View the Digital Edition
Thaw Generation	Ludmilla Alexeyeva	Winner of the 2009 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought Read a press release about this book An insider's look at the Soviet dissident movement—the intellectuals who, during the Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras, dared to challenge an oppressive system and demand the rights guaranteed by the Soviet constitution. Fired from their jobs, hunted by the KGB, “tried,” and imprisoned, Alexeyeva and other activists, through their dedication and sacrifices, focused international attention on thuman rights in the USSR.
Thaw Generation	Paul Goldberg	Winner of the 2009 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought Read a press release about this book An insider's look at the Soviet dissident movement—the intellectuals who, during the Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras, dared to challenge an oppressive system and demand the rights guaranteed by the Soviet constitution. Fired from their jobs, hunted by the KGB, “tried,” and imprisoned, Alexeyeva and other activists, through their dedication and sacrifices, focused international attention on thuman rights in the USSR.
Then, Suddenly—	Lynn Emanuel	A portrayal in verse of the argument between the work of the text and the world of the body, between the identity and persona of both the author and the reader.
Theories of Illness	George Peter Murdock	An important contribution to medical anthropology, this work defines the principal causes if illness that are reported throughout the world, distinguishing those involving natural causation from the more widely prevalent hypotheses advancing supernatural explanations. View the Digital Edition
Theories on the Scrap Heap	John Losee	Using a wide variety of examples of rejected scientific theories, Losee provides an unusually clear analysis of the way scientific method works. Winner of an Outstanding Academic Title Award from Choice Magazine (2006).
Theory and Method in the Neurosciences	Peter Machamer	This volume surveys the nature and structure of theories in contemporary neuroscience, exploring many of its methodological techniques and problems. View the Digital Edition
Theory and Method in the Neurosciences	Peter McLaughlin	This volume surveys the nature and structure of theories in contemporary neuroscience, exploring many of its methodological techniques and problems. View the Digital Edition
Theory and Method in the Neurosciences	Rick Grush	This volume surveys the nature and structure of theories in contemporary neuroscience, exploring many of its methodological techniques and problems. View the Digital Edition
Thinking About Causes	Peter Machamer	Emerging as a hot topic in the mid-twentieth century, causality is one of the most frequently discussed issues in contemporary philosophy. Thinking About Causes brings together top philosophers from the United States and Europe to focus on causality as a major force in philosophical and scientific thought. View the Digital Edition
Thinking About Causes	Gereon Wolters	Emerging as a hot topic in the mid-twentieth century, causality is one of the most frequently discussed issues in contemporary philosophy. Thinking About Causes brings together top philosophers from the United States and Europe to focus on causality as a major force in philosophical and scientific thought. View the Digital Edition
Thirty-Seven Years from the Stone	Mark Cox	Mark Cox delivers a powerful exploration of the vagaries, ironies, and responsibilities of familial and romantic relationships. With humor, tenderness, a dose of terror, and an occasional swerve into the surreal, these poems probe the evolution of self, self-consciousness, and the interior psychological landscape - the effects of our past patterns and influences on the world of the present. By turns humorous and dark, straightforward and oblique, these poems are inventive and intelligent without forsaking accessibility.
This Clumsy Living	Bob Hicok	Winner of the 2008 Bobbit National Poetry Prize “Few others in contemporary poetry are so brilliantly able to combine wit and weight, to charge the language so it virtually glows in the dark. Hicok's poems just plain rock. They rock because they are gorgeous. They rock because they are sad and turn on the radio. They dance our 'clumsy living' with our shadows and our isolations to a music that always, always remembers the original delight in which 'the feel of things, if [we] cherish, helps [us] live / more like a minute than a clock.'” --Beckian Fritz Goldberg Kindle eBook Available Nook eBook Available
Thomas Crawford	Robert Gale	A biography of artist Thomas Crawford (1813–1857), a prolific neoclassical American sculptor who created many of the works that adorn the Capitol, Senate, and House of Representatives. View the Digital Edition
Thomas Mellon and His Times	Thomas Mellon	Publicly available for the first time, Pittsburgh entrepreneur, judge, and banker Thomas Mellon’s autobiography includes maps and rarely seen photographs. The preface by his grandson Paul Mellon and the foreword by David McCullough, along with the introduction, notes, and afterword by University of Pittsburgh professor Mary Briscoe, provide a historical and social context. View the Digital Edition
Three Golden Rivers	Olive Price	Set in 1850, four orphaned children leave their farm and move to the city in order to support themselves. A remarkable story full of the details of life in a robust nineteenth-century city, in the words and experience of four children left to fend for themselves, filled with fascinating bits of history.
Thunder in the Mountains	Lon Savage	Much neglected in historical accounts, Thunder in the Mountains is the only available book-length account of the crisis in American industrial relations and governance that occured during the West Virginia mine war of 1920-21.
Ties That Bind	Charles Jacobson	A historical guidebook for topics ranging from the networked city to the global internet that illuminates the political, economic, and technological forces shaping the infrastructure of modern life. View the Digital Edition
Ties That Bind	Charles Jacobson	A historical guidebook for topics ranging from the networked city to the global internet that illuminates the political, economic, and technological forces shaping the infrastructure of modern life. View the Digital Edition
Timber and Prayer	Afaa Michael Weaver	"Weaver's life studies and lyrics are imbued with a vivid sense of language, a vivid sense of the world, a vivid sense of their inseparability. And his tonal range--fron unabashed passion to teh subtlest velleity--is impressive indeed. This is a singular talent."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Time of Freedom	Cindy Forster	Cindy Forster’s insightful work reveals the critical role played by the rural poor in organizing and sustaining Guatemala’s national revolution of 1944-1954. View the Digital Edition Kindle eBook Available
Time’s Covenant	William Clancy	Time's Covenant offers a collection of the sermons and essays of William Clancy, one of the most vehement opponents of McCarthyism, who was also an ardent civil libertarian and literate commentator on the changing times of the 1950s and 1960s. View the Digital Edition
Time’s Covenant	Eugene Green	Time's Covenant offers a collection of the sermons and essays of William Clancy, one of the most vehement opponents of McCarthyism, who was also an ardent civil libertarian and literate commentator on the changing times of the 1950s and 1960s. View the Digital Edition
Time’s Fancy	Ronald Wallace	Winner of the 1995 Banta Book Prize for a Wisconsin Author Ronald Wallace is best known for his wit and good humor, his synthesis of technical skill and strong emotion, his sensory immediacy, his accessibility, and charm. Now in Time's Fancy, his fifth collection, Wallace explores the tragic aspects of life more fully, fashioning a declarative poetry that is darker and deeper, more meditative and complex.
Timothy Pickering and the American Republic	Gerard Clarfield	Pickering was an important figure in the early American republic. For more than fifty years, he was entrenched in the political, military and diplomatic affairs of the young nation. He held important administrative posts during the Revolution, two cabinet posts, and served as a congressman, senator, and as a spokesman for the extremist element of New England's Federalists. This is the first comprehensive biography of Pickering, and a critical assessment of his politics. View the Digital Edition
To Beijing and Beyond	Janice Auth	Documents the 1995 UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. Forty-three essays by men and women who attended the conference tell of their experiences and how they’ve applied what they learned at home. View the Digital Edition
To Hell with Paradise	Frank Fonda Taylor	"To Hell with Paradise" illustrates the problems of founding a tourist industry for a European or U.S. clientele in a society where the mass of the population is poor, black, and with a historical experience of slavery and colonialism. It combines political and cultural history to reveal how Jamaica transformed itself in the nineteenth century from a pestilence-ridden “white man’s graveyard” to a sun-drenched tourist paradise. View the Digital Edition
To Know Her Own History	Kelly Ritter	Kelly Ritter chronicles the evolution of writing programs at a landmark Southern women’s college during the postwar period. She finds that despite its conservative Southern culture and vocational roots, the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina was a unique setting where advanced writing programs and creativity flourished long before these trends emerged nationally.
To Vote or Not to Vote?	André Blais	Blais tackles the controversial topic of rational choice theory in an engaging and personal way, bringing together the opposing theories and literatures, and offering convincing tests of these different viewpoints in order to find out what makes people decide to vote. View the Digital Edition
To Vote or Not to Vote?	André Blais	Blais tackles the controversial topic of rational choice theory in an engaging and personal way, bringing together the opposing theories and literatures, and offering convincing tests of these different viewpoints in order to find out what makes people decide to vote. View the Digital Edition
Tormented Mirror	Russell Edson	This is the first book in the Pitt Poetry Series by this popular and enigmatic poet, considered the foremost writer of prose poetry in America. In eleven collections over thirty years, Edson has created his own poetic genre, a surreal philosophical fable, easy to enter, but difficult to leave behind. In The Tormented Mirror, Edson continues and refines his form in seventy-three new poems.
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. Winner of the 2006 JAC Gary A. Olson Award Winner of the 2008 Rhetoric Society of America Book Award Winner of the 2008 CCCC Outstanding Book Award Winner of the 2007 NCTE David H. Russell Award Read a press release about this book Read a press release about the awards this book has won View the Digital Edition Kindle eBook Available Nook eBook Available
Toward a Composition Made Whole	Jody Shipka	Shipka views composition as an act of communication that can be expressed through any number of media and as a path to meaning-making. Her study offers an in-depth examination of multimodality via the processes, values, structures, and semiotic practices people employ every day to compose and communicate their thoughts. While she views writing as crucial to discourse, she challenges us to always consider the various purposes that writing serves.
Toward a Feminist Rhetoric	JoAnn Campbell	JoAnn Campbell has created the first collection of the major work of innovative thinker and educator Gertrude Buck. Examples of her writings on rhetorical theory, argumentative and expository composition, and other works demonstrate, along with Campbell’s informative introduction, the importance of Buck’s achievements in the male-dominated world of rhetorical composition. View the Digital Edition
Toward a Feminist Rhetoric	JoAnn Campbell	JoAnn Campbell has created the first collection of the major work of innovative thinker and educator Gertrude Buck. Examples of her writings on rhetorical theory, argumentative and expository composition, and other works demonstrate, along with Campbell’s informative introduction, the importance of Buck’s achievements in the male-dominated world of rhetorical composition. View the Digital Edition
Toward a National Power Policy	Philip Funigiello	This book profiles the events, laws, utilities and dominant industry and political players that shaped the development of national power policies during a period when the federal government sought to make affordable electricity available to all Americans. View the Digital Edition
Town Without Steel	Judith Modell	In 1986, with little warning, the USX Homestead Works closed. Thousands of workers who depended on steel to survive were left without work. A Town Without Steel looks at the people of Homestead as they reinvent their views of household and work and place in this world. View the Digital Edition
Town Without Steel	Charlee Brodsky	In 1986, with little warning, the USX Homestead Works closed. Thousands of workers who depended on steel to survive were left without work. A Town Without Steel looks at the people of Homestead as they reinvent their views of household and work and place in this world. View the Digital Edition
Traces of a Stream	Jacqueline Jones Royster	Traces of a Stream offers a unique scholarly perspective that merges interests in rhetorical and literacy studies, United States social and political theory, and African American women writers. Focusing on elite nineteenth-century African American women who formed a new class of women well positioned to use language with consequence, Royster uses interdisciplinary perspectives (literature, history, feminist studies, African American studies, psychology, art, sociology, economics) to present a well-textured rhetorical analysis of the literate practices of these women. Winner of the 2000 MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize View the Digital Edition Kindle eBook Available
Traditional and Modern Natural Resource Management in Latin America	Jorge Uquillas	This book identifies a major problem facing developing nations and the countries and sources that fund them: the lack of attention and/or effective strategies available to prevent farmers in poorly endowed regions from sinking still deeper into poverty while also avoiding further degradation of marginal environments. View the Digital Edition
Traditional and Modern Natural Resource Management in Latin America	John Frechione	This book identifies a major problem facing developing nations and the countries and sources that fund them: the lack of attention and/or effective strategies available to prevent farmers in poorly endowed regions from sinking still deeper into poverty while also avoiding further degradation of marginal environments. View the Digital Edition
Traditional and Modern Natural Resource Management in Latin America	Francisco Pichón	This book identifies a major problem facing developing nations and the countries and sources that fund them: the lack of attention and/or effective strategies available to prevent farmers in poorly endowed regions from sinking still deeper into poverty while also avoiding further degradation of marginal environments. View the Digital Edition
Traffic Safety Reform in the United States and Great Britain	Jerome Legge Jr.	This book combines theory and research to analyze attempts to improve traffic safety through stricter drinking-age laws, seat-belt requirements, and deterrents to drunk driving. View the Digital Edition
Transformations and Crisis of Liberalism in Argentina, 1930–1955	Jorge Nallim	Jorge Nállim chronicles the decline of liberalism in Argentina during the volatile period between two military coups—the 1930 overthrow of Hipólito Yrigoyen and the deposing of Juan Perón in 1955. Nállim documents a wide range of locations where liberalism was claimed and ultimately marginalized in the pursuit of individual agendas. He demonstrates how liberalism became a vital and complex factor in the metamorphosis of modern history in Argentina and Latin America as well.
Transforming Latin America	David Pion-Berlin	Using detailed case studies, this text provides a means of understanding the political change in Latin America. It offers insight into central issues such as economic reform, human rights, and immigration. View the Digital Edition Kindle eBook Available
Transforming Latin America	Craig Arceneaux	Using detailed case studies, this text provides a means of understanding the political change in Latin America. It offers insight into central issues such as economic reform, human rights, and immigration. View the Digital Edition Kindle eBook Available
Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs	Craig Colten	From prehistoric midden building to late twentieth century industrial pollution, Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs traces through history the impact of human activity upon the environment of this fascinating and unpredictable region. View the Digital Edition
Transition Cinema	Jessica Stites Mor	Transition Cinema documents the critical role filmmakers, the film industry, and state regulators played in Argentina’s volatile and unfinished transition from dictatorship to democracy. Jessia Stites Mor shows how, during periods of both military repression and civilian rule, the state moved to control political film production and its content, distribution, and exhibition. She also reveals the strategies that the industry, independent filmmakers, and film activists employed to comply with or circumvent these regulations.
Translations from the Flesh	Elton Glaser	In Translations from the Flesh, Elton Glaser's poems are driven by the powerful engines of love and desire, giving voice to those deep pressures that most move us, body and soul: "I put my native tongue / To work, open to / The dark instincts of ecstasy."
Transnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions	Stephen Bloom	The editors of this volume contend that transnational actors have exerted a powerful influence in postcommunist transitions. They demonstrate that transitions to democracy, capitalism, and nation-statehood, which scholars thought were likely to undermine one another, were facilitated by the integration of Central and East European states into an international system of complex interdependence. Transnational actors turn out to be the “dark matter” that held the various aspects of the transition together. Leading scholars debate the role and impact of transnational actors and present a promising new research program for the study of this rapidly transforming region. View the Digital Edition Kindle eBook Available
Transnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions	Stephen Bloom	The editors of this volume contend that transnational actors have exerted a powerful influence in postcommunist transitions. They demonstrate that transitions to democracy, capitalism, and nation-statehood, which scholars thought were likely to undermine one another, were facilitated by the integration of Central and East European states into an international system of complex interdependence. Transnational actors turn out to be the “dark matter” that held the various aspects of the transition together. Leading scholars debate the role and impact of transnational actors and present a promising new research program for the study of this rapidly transforming region. View the Digital Edition Kindle eBook Available
Transnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions	Mitchell Orenstein	The editors of this volume contend that transnational actors have exerted a powerful influence in postcommunist transitions. They demonstrate that transitions to democracy, capitalism, and nation-statehood, which scholars thought were likely to undermine one another, were facilitated by the integration of Central and East European states into an international system of complex interdependence. Transnational actors turn out to be the “dark matter” that held the various aspects of the transition together. Leading scholars debate the role and impact of transnational actors and present a promising new research program for the study of this rapidly transforming region. View the Digital Edition Kindle eBook Available
Transnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions	Mitchell Orenstein	The editors of this volume contend that transnational actors have exerted a powerful influence in postcommunist transitions. They demonstrate that transitions to democracy, capitalism, and nation-statehood, which scholars thought were likely to undermine one another, were facilitated by the integration of Central and East European states into an international system of complex interdependence. Transnational actors turn out to be the “dark matter” that held the various aspects of the transition together. Leading scholars debate the role and impact of transnational actors and present a promising new research program for the study of this rapidly transforming region. View the Digital Edition Kindle eBook Available
Transnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions	Nicole Lindstrom	The editors of this volume contend that transnational actors have exerted a powerful influence in postcommunist transitions. They demonstrate that transitions to democracy, capitalism, and nation-statehood, which scholars thought were likely to undermine one another, were facilitated by the integration of Central and East European states into an international system of complex interdependence. Transnational actors turn out to be the “dark matter” that held the various aspects of the transition together. Leading scholars debate the role and impact of transnational actors and present a promising new research program for the study of this rapidly transforming region. View the Digital Edition Kindle eBook Available
Transnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions	Nicole Lindstrom	The editors of this volume contend that transnational actors have exerted a powerful influence in postcommunist transitions. They demonstrate that transitions to democracy, capitalism, and nation-statehood, which scholars thought were likely to undermine one another, were facilitated by the integration of Central and East European states into an international system of complex interdependence. Transnational actors turn out to be the “dark matter” that held the various aspects of the transition together. Leading scholars debate the role and impact of transnational actors and present a promising new research program for the study of this rapidly transforming region. View the Digital Edition Kindle eBook Available
Transparency in Global Change	Leslie Holzner	An examination of the quest for information exchange in an increasingly international, open society, Transparency in Global Change discusses the reasons for the recent increase in public desire for transparency and the byproducts this transparency can produce. View the Digital Edition Kindle eBook Available
Transparency in Global Change	Burkart Holzner	An examination of the quest for information exchange in an increasingly international, open society, Transparency in Global Change discusses the reasons for the recent increase in public desire for transparency and the byproducts this transparency can produce. View the Digital Edition Kindle eBook Available
Traveler's Guide to Historic Western Pennsylvania	Lois Mulkearn	A comprehensive twenty-seven county guide to historic landmarks in western Pennsylvania, with background information on each, and how to reach them. View the Digital Edition
Traveler's Guide to Historic Western Pennsylvania	Edwin Pugh	A comprehensive twenty-seven county guide to historic landmarks in western Pennsylvania, with background information on each, and how to reach them. View the Digital Edition
Travels of John Heckewelder in Frontier America	Paul Wallace	A collection of the travel writings of John Heckewelder, who recorded much of the history of the western frontier in the upper Ohio Valley and the eastern Great Lakes. View the Digital Edition
Triple Time	Anne Sanow	Winner of the 2009 Drue Heinz Literature Prize Winner of the 2010 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award 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 Kindle eBook Available
Triumphant Capitalism	Kenneth Warren	A detailed, carefully wrought business biography of Henry Clay Frick, one of the leading entrepreneurs in American heavy industry during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Kenneth Warren has provided not only insight into the life of Henry Clay Frick, but a major contribution to our understanding of the history of the basic industries, the shaping of society, locality, and region - and thereby of laying the foundations for the value systems and landscapes of present-day America. View the Digital Edition
Troubled Waters	I. Michael Aronson	Aronson refutes the widely-held belief that the anti-Jewish pogroms of 1881 in Russia were supported by the Czar, or those within his inner circle. He instead looks to social, economic and political forces of the time, and recounts the fateful events of this year in great detail. View the Digital Edition
Troy and Her Legend	Arthur Milton Young	Young provides a “biography” of the greatest of the classical legends, the story of the fall of Troy. Young's text is beautifully illustrated with examples of art inspired by the legend, from literature, painting, ceramics, tapestry, sculpture, and the opera, with fresh interpretations of their meaning. In deepening our knowledge of classic texts and their changing interpretations over time, Young argues, we enhance our understanding both of the classics and of the successive civilizations they have influenced. View the Digital Edition
Truly Needy and Other Stories	Lucy Honig	Winner of the 1999 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, the nine stories in this selection are full of quirky, complex, and vividly drawn characters who live on the margins of New York society.
Truth of Authority	Thomas Remington	Thomas Remington views the methods used by the Communist Party in official communications to Soviet society during the 1970s and 1980s. View the Digital Edition
Turning Points of Environmental History	Frank Uekoetter	In this volume, an international group of environmental historians examine the significant ways in which humans have impacted their surroundings throughout history. Kindle eBook Available
Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume One	Roy Lubove	Now back in print, this is a pioneering analysis of an elite driven, post-World War II urban renewal, that has become the classic model for all such redevelopment projects. View the Digital Edition
Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume Two	Roy Lubove	This volume traces the major decisions, events, programs, and personalities that transformed the city of Pittsburgh during its urban renewal project, which began in 1977. Roy Lubove demonstrates how the city showed united determination to attract high technology companies in an attempt to reverse the economic fallout from the decline of the local steel industry. Lubove also separates the successes from the failures, the good intentions from the actual results. View the Digital Edition
Two and Two	Denise Duhamel	Winner of the 2007 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award Ranging in subject matter from traditional literary matter to Hong Kong action films, the poems in this collection provide unusual perspectives on American society. Read a press release about this book Watch Denise Duhamel read from her book Two and Two. Kindle eBook Available Nook eBook Available
Two-Headed Household	Sarah Hamilton	The Two-Headed Household is an ethnographic account of gender relations and intrahousehold decisionmaking as well as a policy-oriented study of gender and development in the indigenous Andean community of Chanchalo, Ecuador. Sarah Hamilton argues that, contrary to common belief, men and women participate equally in agricultural production and management, in household decisionmaking, and share in the reproductive tasks of child care, food preparation, and other chores. View the Digital Edition
Two-Way Street	George Krause	Relying on advanced statistical techniques and case studies, George Krause argues for a dynamic system of influence. His analysis and conclusions will challenge conventional theoretical and empirical wisdom in the field of administrative politics and public bureaucracy. View the Digital Edition