A double life

An unsung classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Karolina Pavlova’s A Double Life alternates prose and poetry to offer a wry picture of Russian aristocratic society and vivid dreams of escaping its strictures.

A dozen lessons for entrepreneurs

A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs shows how the insights of leading venture capitalists can teach readers to create a unique approach to building a successful business. By better understanding the views and experiences of a wide range of entrepreneurs, readers can discern which of many possible p...

A dream denied

Young minority men are often portrayed in popular media as victims of poverty and discrimination. A Dream Denied delves deeper, investigating the social and cultural implications of the “American dream” narrative for young minority men in the juvenile justice systems in Boston and Chicago. This b...

A dream play

A woman comes from another world to see if life is as difficult as people make it out to be.

A drink with shane macgowan

Best known as the cofounder of the Irish band The Pogues, Shane MacGowan has become a cult figure on the alternative-music scene. His achingly beautiful lyrics, as well as his legendary lifestyle of excess, have earned him an avid following that packs his shows and buys his albums. One of the mos...

A duration

In the poem-essays that comprise A Duration, writing is a physical act where writing and lived experience support one another in bodies—animal, plant, mineral, and word bodies—that are injured and heal, that die and continue in new forms, playing new roles. Here, in his fifth book, Richard Meier ...

A dying colonialism

Frantz Fanon's seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution.Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern revolutionary theory as The Wretched of the Earth and Bl...

A european crisis: perspectives on refugees, solidarity, and europe

This is a book about the crisis of the European integration project as seen from the vantage point of people’s movements across and to the European continent. But why should the issue of refugees or of migration have anything to do with the dynamics of the integration or disintegration of the Eur...

A european memory?

An examination of the role of history and memory is vital in order to better understand why the grand design of a United Europe—with a common foreign policy and market yet enough diversity to allow for cultural and social differences—was overwhelmingly turned down by its citizens. The authors a...

A fabulous failure

How the Clinton administration betrayed its progressive principles and capitulated to the rightWhen Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, he ended twelve years of Republican rule and seemed poised to enact a progressive transformation of the US economy, touching everything from health care ...

A face drawn in sand

Rey Chow rearticulates the plight of the humanities in the age of global finance and neoliberal mores through a focus on Foucault’s concept “outside.” She foregrounds a nonutilitarian approach, stressing anew the intellectual and pedagogical objectives fundamental to humanistic inquiry.

A face in the rock

Eight miles long and four miles wide, Grand Island lies off the south shore of Lake Superior. It was once home to a sizable community of Chippewa Indians who lived in harmony with the land and with each other. Their tragic demise began early in the nineteenth century when their fellow tribesmen f...

A failed parricide

An Oedipal drama for the ages, played out through philosophical polemics, with a twist that haunts history to this day.

A family sketch and other private writings

This book publishes, for the first time in full, the two most revealing of Mark Twain’s private writings. Here he turns his mind to the daily life he shared with his wife Livy, their three daughters, a great many servants, and an imposing array of pets. These first-hand accounts display this gif...

A farewell to alms

Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it--occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place? Why didn't industrialization make the whole world rich--...

A fascination for fish

This engaging memoir presents one man's lifelong love of the ocean and gives a highly personal, behind-the-scenes look at California's magnificent and innovative aquariums. David Powell, for many years curator of the world-renowned Monterey Bay Aquarium, tells the story of his life as a pioneerin...

A fast life: the collected poems of tim dlugos

The long-awaited, definitive collection of a major American poet

A fatal balancing act

First comprehensive study on the German-Jewish leadership during the Holocaust Gives a new perspective on the persecution of Jews in Germany Presents different inner-Jewish perspectives on the years 1939-1945

A fateful triangle

Leonid Luks considers the causes and consequences of twentieth-century Russian and German revolts against the West’s emerging open societies and their ideological foundations. He explores post-Soviet Russia and the special relationship that all three countries of Central and Eastern Europe’s "fat...

A feast for all seasons

A collection of traditional recipes that provide a fascinating glimpse into Native culture and customs.

A feast of creatures

In A Feast of Creatures, Craig Williamson recasts nearly one hundred Old English riddles of the Exeter Book into a modern verse mode that yokes the cadences of Aelfric with the sprung rhythm of Gerard Manley Hopkins.Like the early English riddlers before him, Williamson gives voice to the nightin...

A feast of flowers

When Ecuador's cut-flower industry took off in the mid-1980s, it rode a wave of international credit peddling and currency speculation that would lead countries of the Global South into successive debt crises and northern financial firms to fortune and dominion. By the start of the twenty-first c...

A feel for thinking

A pocket book on big ideas in social justice for those seeking refuge in learning.

A female apostle in medieval italy

This book centers on a fascinating woman, Clare of Rimini (c. 1260 to c. 1324–29), whose story is preserved in a fascinating text. Composed by an anonymous Franciscan, the Life of the Blessed Clare of Rimini is the earliest known saint’s life originally written in Italian, and one of the few such...

A few good gays

The US military has done an about-face on gender and sexuality policy over the last decade, ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, restrictions on women in combat, and transgender exclusion. Contrary to expectations, servicemembers have largely welcomed cisgender LGB individuals—yet they continue to vocif...

A field guide to climate anxiety

Gen Z's first "existential toolkit" for combating eco-guilt and burnout while advocating for climate justice. A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The “climate generation”—late millennials and iGen, or Generation Z—is demanding that policy makers and government leaders ...

A field guide to deception

She had wanted, and she had taken what she wanted. Just like always.

A field guide to the street names of central cairo

The map of a city is a palimpsest of its history. In Cairo, people, places, events, and even dates have lent their names to streets, squares, and bridges, only for those names often to be replaced, and then replaced again, and even again, as the city and the country imagine and reimagine their pa...

A field guide to white supremacy

Drawing explicit lines, across time and a broad spectrum of violent acts, to provide the definitive field guide for understanding and opposing white supremacy in America   Hate, racial violence, exclusion, and racist laws receive breathless media coverage, but such attention focuses on distinct e...

A fighter's heart

In 1999, after a series of wildly adventurous jobs around the world, Sam Sheridan found himself in Australia, loaded with cash and intent on not working until he’d spent it all. It occurred to him that, without distractions, he could finally indulge a long-dormant obsession:  fighting. Within a y...

A fighting chance

A practical must-have resource for those working with young children experiencing disruptive change in their lives

A financial revolution in the habsburg netherlands

This book delves into the financial revolution that took place in the Habsburg Netherlands, focusing specifically on the County of Holland from 1515 to 1565. It investigates the evolution of public debt, with a particular emphasis on the introduction and widespread use of life-term and perpetual ...

A finer future

Humanity is in a race with catastrophe and charting the course to a regenerative economy is the most important work facing the world. A Finer Future gathers the evidence and delivers the essential blueprint for an economy that works for people and the planet.

A finger in the wound

Many Guatemalans speak of Mayan indigenous organizing as "a finger in the wound." Diane Nelson explores the implications of this painfully graphic metaphor in her far-reaching study of the civil war and its aftermath. Why use a body metaphor? What body is wounded, and how does it react to apparen...

A fire in her brain

A profound and moving sequence of poems exploring genius and mental illness through the lives of Lucia Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Sylvia Plath A Fire in Her Brain examines the porous boundary between the spark of genius and a mind in conflagration in the lives and works of Lucia Joyce, Virginia W...

A first glance at st. thomas aquinas

Thomism is solidly based on the assumption that we know the world first through our senses and then through concepts formed on the basis of our sense experience. In this informally discursive introduction to St. Thomas Aquinas, Ralph McInerny shows how this basic assumption contrasts with dominan...

A floating city of peasants

The largest human migration in history is taking place in China today—incredibly, off the radar of the world's major media. Since the 1990s, at least 120 million Chinese peasants have left the countryside for big cities to work in factories, on construction sites, in catering and prostitution—ty...

A flock of fools

A flourishing yin

This book brings the study of gender to Chinese medicine and in so doing contextualizes Chinese medicine in history. It examines the rich but neglected tradition of fuke, or medicine for women, over the seven hundred years between the Song and the end of the Ming dynasty. Using medical classics, ...

A focus on 3d printing for healthcare applications

A Focus on 3D Printing for Healthcare Applications is an indispensable collection of articles for anyone interested in additive manufacturing and prosthetics. 3D printing has huge potential to deliver tailored healthcare solutions. Find out some of the reasons why by reading this collection.

A focus on consumer behaviours and experiences in an online shopping environment

A Focus on Consumer Behaviours and Experiences in an Online Shopping Environment is a collection of key articles offering insights across a range of sectors. Some of the topics the book looks at include: - Influences of socioeconomic characteristics in online shopping behaviour - The role trust p...

A focus on slm and sls methods in 3d printing

A Focus on SLM and SLS Methods in 3D Printing is an indispensable collection of articles for anyone involved in additive manufacturing - from academics and researchers through to engineers and managers within the manufacturing industry.