During the 1980s, El Salvador's violent civil war captured the world's attention. In the years since, the country has undergone dramatic changes. Landscapes of Struggle offers a broad, interdisciplina
The US shale boom and efforts by other countries to exploit their shale resources could reshape energy and environmental landscapes across the world. But how might those landscapes change? Will countr
Emily Pugh provides an original comparative analysis of selected works of architecture and urban planning in East and West Berlin during the ?Wall era,” to reveal the importance of these structures to
At the end of the nineteenth century, Pittsburgh was leading the nation in glass production, and glass bottle plants in particular relied heavily on adolescent (and younger) males for their manufactu
Permeable Border is an interdisciplinary collaboration of three historians and a geographer (two Americans, one Canadian, and an American of Canadian descent) that traces the economic development of
South Africa is recognized as a site of both political turmoil and natural beauty, and yet little work has been done in connecting these defining national characteristics. Washed with Sun achieves th
Nicholas Rescher tackles the major questions of philosophical inquiry, pondering the nature of truth and existence. In the authoritative voice and calculated manner that we’ve come to expect fr
While some students need more writing instruction than others, The Politics of Remediation reveals how that need also pertains to the institutions themselves. Mary Soliday argues that universities ma
After an extraordinary career in dance - as a performer, choreographer, and teacher - Daniel Nagrin has now written an extraordinary book. In it he explores the roots of his aesthetic philosophy, inf
In this original study, Jorge A. Nallim chronicles the decline of liberalism in Argentina during the volatile period between two military coups—the 1930 overthrow ofHipolito Yrigoyen and the deposing
As America’s first truly postmodern president, Bill Clinton experienced both great highs and stunning lows in office that will shape the future course of American politics. Clinton will forever be rem
Sites Unseen challenges conventions for viewing and interpreting the landscape, using visual theory to move beyond traditional practices of describing and classifying objects to explore notions of aud
A central concern of nearly every environmental ethic is its desire to extend the scope of direct moral concern beyond human beings to plants, nonhuman animals, and the systems of which they are a par
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 the
This book explores the relationship between science, empire, and colonial society in the Spanish Atlantic as manifested in the Crown’s efforts to control quina (pronounced keen-uh), a medicinal tree b
Narrating Narcos presents a probing examination of the prominent role of narcotics trafficking in contemporary Latin American cultural production. In her study, Gabriela Polit Duenas juxtaposes two in
Realism and Pragmatic Epistemology explores the ways we use knowledge and how it is the successful application of knowledge that at once substantiates and objectifies the things we believe we know.It
Despite its popular association today with magic, astrology was once a complex and sophisticated practice, grounded in technical training provided by a university education.The Crown and the Cosmos ex
