As climate change and development pressures overwhelm the environment, our emotional relationships with Earth are also in crisis. Pessimism and distress are... Læs mere
The Romanian Revolution of 1989 was the most spectacularly violent and remains today the most controversial of all the East European upheavals of that year. Despite (or perhaps because of) the media attention the revolution received, it remains...
In White World Order, Black Power Politics, Robert Vitalis recovers the arguments, texts, and institution building of... Læs mere
"I love life in its living form, life that’s found on the street, in human conversations, shouts, and moans." So begins this... Læs mere
In The Senses of Modernism, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding of high modernism. The author closely analyzes Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, and James Joyce's...
Phelan's compelling readings cover important theoretical ground by introducing a valuable distinction between disclosure functions and narrator functions.
Joan C. Tronto argues that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our own fundamental values and commitments, from a caring perspective.
This interdisciplinary volume is a new introduction to area studies in the framework of whole-world thinking. Emerging in the United States after... Læs mere
Tells the story of an isolated Michigan town that becomes the flash-point for some of the principal ideological debates of our day. This story is about the failure of best intentions and the... Læs mere
Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov (1856–1929) was a key figure in late Imperial Russia, and one of its foremost soldiers. At the... Læs mere
Available for the first time in English, Zofia Nalkowska's Boundary was originally published as Granica in Poland in 1935. The modernist novel was widely discussed upon its publication and... Læs mere