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Literature and transformation
An inquiry into readers’ experiences of life-changing encounters with works of literature, the book uncovers the relationships between life-crises, being moved by literature and transformation of the self.
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Literature for a changing planet
Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastropheReading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet, at this turning point for the planet, scientists, policymakers, and act...
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Literature from the 'axis of evil'
Subject of a full-length segment on Morning Edition when it first appeared in hardcover, Literature from the "Axis of Evil" quickly went to the top of the Amazon bestseller list. Its publication was celebrated by authors including Azar Nafisi and Alice Walker, and the Bloomsbury Review named it ...
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Literature in motion
Ellen Jones offers a new framework for understanding literary multilingualism, emphasizing how authors and translators can use its defamiliarizing and disruptive potential. She examines the connection between translation and multilingualism and considers its significance for the theory, practice,...
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Literature of the crusades
An interdisciplinary approach to sources for our knowledge of the crusades.The interrelation of so-called "literary" and "historical" sources of the crusades, and the fluidity of these categorisations, are the central concerns of the essays collected here. They demonstrate what the study of liter...
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Literature reviews in support of the middle level education research agenda
This volume covers the 8 areas identified by the Middle Level Education Research Special Interest Group to guide middle grades education research. They are: young adolescent development, cultural responsiveness, special populations, educator development, curriculum, social and emotional learning,...
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Literature, disaster, and the enigma of power
This powerful new reading of Moby-Dick brings into play some of the most consequential theoretical developments of the last three decades in philosophy, cultural studies, and literary criticism. It takes account of four trends in innovative critical thought: recent theories of power, as articulat...
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Literature, exile, alterity
This pioneering book is the first to present the postwar phenomenon of the New York Group of Ukrainian émigré poets as a case study for exploring cultural and aesthetic ramifications of exile. It focuses on the poets’ diasporic and transnational connections both with their country of origin and t...
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Literature, life, and modernity
Richard Eldridge explores the ability of dense and formally interesting literature to respond to the complexities of modern life. Beyond simple entertainment, difficult modern works cultivate reflective depth and help their readers order and interpret their lives as subjects in relation to comple...
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Literatures, communities, and learning
Literatures, Communities, and Learning contextualizes Indigenous literatures through pedagogical and social justice perspectives. Gathering conversations with nine Indigenous writers, the book explores the writers’ relationship to storytelling, Indigenous peoples’ well-being, and community-based ...
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Literature’s refuge
Stories silenced or sequestered by a century of mass displacement between Europe and the Middle East—recovered and retold at lastIn 1923, the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange uprooted and swapped nearly two million Christians and Muslims, “pacifying” the so-called Near East through ethnic partit...
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Lithuania transforms the west
This book analyzes security developments in Lithuania since 1988, from liberation of Soviet occupation, the USSR's collapse, to its integration into NATO.
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Little beast
A little girl with a beard must find herself a home in this contemporary fairy tale.
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Little casino
These episodes from a Brooklyn long gone astonish with their penetrating, subtle detail.
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Little cat
The first two novels by Tamara Faith Berger, acclaimed author of Maidenhead — they're every shade of dirty.
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Little hill
Award-winning poet explores new formal terrain in seven long poems against the violence of the present political moment.
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Little india
Little India is a rich historical and ethnographic examination of a fascinating example of linguistic plurality on the island of Mauritius, where more than two-thirds of the population is of Indian ancestry. Patrick Eisenlohr's groundbreaking study focuses on the formation of diaspora as mediate...
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Little lindy is kidnapped
Thomas Doherty offers a lively and comprehensive cultural history of the media coverage of the abduction of the child of Charles and Anne Lindbergh and its aftermath. He traces how newspapers, radio, and newsreels reported on what was dubbed the “crime of the century.”
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Little magazine, world form
Little magazines made modernism. Little Magazine, World Form shows that their reach and importance extended far beyond Europe and the United States. By investigating the global and transnational itineraries of the little-magazine form, Eric Bulson uncovers a worldwide network that influenced the ...
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Little million doors
A moving poetic account of grief and record of post-traumatic stress after the loss of a parent.
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Little moons
In this moving graphic novel, thirteen-year-old Reanna grieves the loss of her older sister. Can she find comfort through her family’s Ojibwe traditions? It’s been a year since Reanna’s sister, Chelsea, went missing on her way home from school. Without any idea of what happened, Reanna and her ...
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Little rice
Can the world’s biggest economy actually innovate? Clay Shirky explores China at a crossroads. Smartphones have to be made someplace, and that place is China. In just five years, a company named Xiaomi (which means “little rice” in Mandarin) has grown into the most valuable startup ever, becomin...
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Little sister death
David Binder is a young, successful writer living in Chicago and suffering from writer’s block. He stares at the blank page, and the blank page stares backuntil inspiration strikes in the form of a ghost story that captivated him as a child.With his pregnant wife and young daughter in tow, he se...
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Little women
This unabridged top quality edition of the beloved classic, Little Women, is a portrait of nineteenth-century family life that has been read by young and old for generations
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Liturgical subjects
Liturgical Subjects examines the history of the self in the Byzantine Empire, challenging narratives of Christian subjectivity that focus only on classical antiquity and the Western Middle Ages. As Derek Krueger demonstrates, Orthodox Christian interior life was profoundly shaped by patterns of w...
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Liturgical theology after schmemann
French philosopher Paul Ricoeur gave sustained attention to several themes pertinent to a hermeneutics of liturgy, including symbol, metaphor, narrative, subjectivity and memory. This book explores how Ricoeur’s original insights may serve to renew contemporary Orthodox liturgical theology. The B...
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Livable cities?
The sprawling cities of the developing world are vibrant hubs of economic growth, but they are also increasingly ecologically unsustainable and, for ordinary citizens, increasingly unlivable. Pollution is rising, affordable housing is decreasing, and green space is shrinking. Since three-quarters...
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Live all you can
Laying waste to the notion that Abner Doubleday established the modern game of baseball, acclaimed biographer Jay Martin makes a bold case for A. J. Cartwright (1820-1892), an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and avid ballplayer whose keen perception and restless spirit codified the rules of the spo...
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Live and die like a man
A rich ethnography of men in a low-income neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt, this book gives the reader a vivid sense of the meaning of masculinity and the multiple agents who contribute to the making of men in the Middle East.
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Live feed
The poems in Live Feed examine how we live our lives on-screen. The commerce machine often assumes the persona of "the city," a place where the speaker seeks an accommodation between urbanicity and organicity, attempting to make some sort of whole of our fractured society, sensibilities, and lives.
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Live from the afrikan resistance!
Live from the Afrikan Resistance! is the first collection of spoken word poetry by Halifax’s fifth Poet Laureate, El Jones. These poems speak of community and struggle. They are grounded in the political culture of African Nova Scotia and inherit the styles and substances of hip- hop, dub and cal...
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Live long and evolve
An engaging journey into the biological principles underpinning a beloved science-fiction franchiseIn Star Trek, crew members travel to unusual planets, meet diverse beings, and encounter unique civilizations. In these remarkable space adventures, does Star Trek reflect biology and evolution as w...
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Live performance and video games
This collection brings together international researchers and artists to explore the relationship between live performance and video games in a variety of essays.
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Live sustainably now
Karl Coplan shares his personal journey of attempting to cut back on carbon without giving up the amenities of a suburban middle-class lifestyle. Live Sustainably Now shows that there does not have to be a trade-off between the ethical obligation to maintain a sustainable carbon footprint and the...
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Live theory
Live Theory: The Stanley Aronowitz Reader brings together in thirteen seminal essays Aronowitz’s theoretical contributions.
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Live working or die fighting
The two hundred-year story of the global working class and its many struggles for justice.
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Lived experience and educational research methodology
This book offers narrative accounts of developing thesis projects in education. It challenges myths and stereotypes, focusing on messy research problems and diverse ethical, theoretical, and political commitments. The authors are graduates of a unique rural-regional doctoral program.
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Lived experiences of ableism in academia
Demands for excellence and efficiency have created an ableist culture in academia. What impact do these expectations have on disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent colleagues? This important and eye-opening collection explores ableism in academia from the viewpoint of academics' personal an...
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Lived experiences of exclusion in the workplace
Lived Experiences of Exclusion in the Workplace shares the emotional expressions of those who have faced alienation and marginalisation, providing guidance on how to trigger inclusion through various, often simple measures.
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Lived realities of solo motherhood, donor conception and medically assisted reproduction
This book explores the empirical manifestations of the paradoxical features of reproductive technologies and provides in-depth understandings of solo motherhood through assisted reproduction and by recognising the complex experiences and the lived realities of forming donor-conceived families.
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Lived refuge
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In a world increasingly shaped by displacement and migration, refuge is both a coveted right and an elusive promise for millions...
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Lived religion in america
At once historically and theoretically informed, these essays invite the reader to think of religion dynamically, reconsidering American religious history in terms of practices that are linked to specific social contexts. The point of departure is the concept of "lived religion." Discussing such ...
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Lived-body experiences in virtual reality
Zeynep Akbal explores the impact of virtual reality (VR) technology on the subjective experience of the body.
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Livelihood and resistance
Livelihood and Resistance examines a Peruvian highland community where rural resistance has been endemic for over a century. Gavin Smith explores the way in which the villagers' daily economic interests and their political struggles contribute to their social and political identity.
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Lives in limbo
“My world seems upside down. I have grown up but I feel like I’m moving backward. And I can’t do anything about it.” –Esperanza Over two million of the nation’s eleven million undocumented immigrants have lived in the United States since childhood. Due to a broken immigration system, they grow u...
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Lives in transit
Lives in Transit chronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants in transit through Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in humanitarian aid shelters and other key sites, Wendy A. Vogt examines the multiple forms of violence that migrants experience as their bodies, labor, and lives becom...
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Lives lived and lost
Lives Lived and Lost stands at the intersection of biography, autobiography, memory and history. It narrates a mother’s and daughter’s separate perspectives of their experiences before, during, and after World War II. The book is also an ethnography of lives of women and children during a transfo...
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