Virtuousity in Business — Now Available
11/01/2011
Virtuosity in Business: Invisible Law Guiding the Invisible Hand Kevin T. Jackson 376 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4376-5 | $79.95 | £52.00 Virtuosity in Business… READ MORE
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Anonymous Is Terrible, But We’re to Blame, says Shakespearean Scholar James Marino
11/01/2011
When we condone myths about Shakespeare, or actually promote them, we create the fertile ground where conspiracy theories grow.
Who’s Afraid of Beowulf?
10/31/2011
My textbook’s translation from Old English seemed entirely cryptic, despite my painstaking efforts to parse out the intended meaning of the thousand-year-old work. As a result, I admit that I have since held a grudge against all things Beowulf.
The Fabrication of American Literature — Now Available
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
Five Things Urban Planners Must Do to Foster Women’s Health
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.
“Don’t Leave”: Brian Glyn Williams on Afghanistan’s Future After Troop Reductions
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
The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell — Now Available
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–Now Available
10/24/2011
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
Knowing Books–Now Available
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
Causes of the Crisis Blog Shifts Focus to Government Bank Regulations
10/20/2011
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
