10/28/2011
The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture Lara Langer Cohen 256 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus. Cloth Nov 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4369-7 | $59.95… READ MORE
10/27/2011
What if your daughter couldn’t learn reading or math because it is unsafe to walk to school? What if your neighborhood had no clean running water, but it was your duty to serve healthy meals to your aging in-laws? What if the simple act of crossing the street in time to transfer from one bus to another put you and your children at risk because of poor transit system design? For many women in cities around the world, these “what ifs” are too real.
Women have first-hand knowledge of the particular ways that poorly lit streets, crowded subway cars, and bad or nonexistant infrastructure effect their well-being. And now there’s a growing body of research to back up what the proverbial grandmother could have told us.
10/25/2011
Brian Glyn Williams, historian, military advisor, and author of Afghanistan Declassified: A Guide to America's Longest War, recently spoke on the future of that central Asian country and the possible… READ MORE
10/24/2011
The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell: Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500 Dyan Elliott 472 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4358-1… READ MORE
Reinventing Childhood After World War II Edited by Paula S. Fass and Michael Grossberg 192 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4367-3 | $42.50 | £28.00 This… READ MORE
10/20/2011
Knowing Books: The Consciousness of Mediation in Eighteenth-Century Britain Christina Lupton 216 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4372-7 | $55.00 | £36.00 A volume in the… READ MORE
Jeffrey Friedman and Wladimir Kraus of the Critical Review Foundation have shifted the focus of their blog, Causes of the Crisis, to concentrate on the role of regulation in the… READ MORE
10/19/2011
The Kiln Book Frederick L. Olsen Fourth Edition 288 pages | 8 1/2 x 11 | 270 color, 310 b/w illus. Paper 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2186-2 | $45.00 | £29.50… READ MORE
10/17/2011
Human Rights in Our Own Backyard: Injustice and Resistance in the United States Edited by William T. Armaline, Davita Silfen Glasberg, and Bandana Purkayastha 320 pages | 6 x 9… READ MORE
10/04/2011
Engineering the Financial Crisis: Systemic Risk and the Failure of Regulation Jeffrey Friedman and Wladimir Kraus 224 pages | 6 x 9 | 13 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4357-4… READ MORE
