Because why

Immersed in botanical insight, Fox’s experimentations with language and life illuminate this accomplished debut.These poems embark upon an archetypal journey of introspection and awakening, transforming language in a show of poetic alchemy. Separating spirituality from dogma, and fusing contempor...

Because you have to

Frank reveals what life as a writer and member of the intellectual world has taught her through original essays.

Because you were mine

In their latest collection of poems, Cave Canem Poetry Prize winner Brionne Janae dives into the deep, unsettled waters of intimate partner violence, queerness, grief, and survival. “I’ve decided I can’t trust anyone who uses darkness as a metaphor for what they fear,” poet Brionne Janae writes ...

Beckett's late stage

Beckett's Late Stage reexamines the Nobel laureate's postwar prose and drama in the light of contemporary trauma theory. Through a series of sustained close readings, the study demonstrates how the comings and goings of Beckett's prose unsettles the Western philosophical tradition; it reveals how...

Beckett, lacan and the gaze

Forming a pair with the voice, the gaze is a central structuring element of Samuel Beckett’s creation. This study systematically examines these essential aspects of the visual in Beckett’s creation.

Beckett, lacan, and the voice

The voice traverses Beckett's work in its entirety, defining its space and its structure. Emanating from an indeterminate source situated outside the narrators and characters, while permeating the very words they utter, it proves to be incessant. It can alternatively be violently intrusive, or em...

Beckett’s drama

Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson takes a closer look at the often peculiar, sometimes incongruous physical movements and gestures that characters perform in Samuel Beckett’s drama, viz. mis-movements.

Becky nurse of salem (tcg edition)

A wry, innovative reckoning with the legacy of the Salem witch trials from one of America’s foremost playwrights. Becky Nurse is an outspoken, sharp-witted tour guide at the Salem Museum of Witchcraft who’s just trying to get by in post-Obama America. She’s also the descendant of Rebecca Nurse, ...

Become an effective software engineering manager

Becoming a can-do leader

Manage without giving up the work you love and discover the leader within. Conventional management thinking says that to manage effectively you must delegate. It implies that managers fall into a dangerous trap when they continue to perform tasks they love from a previous role. And it says that t...

Becoming a culturally responsive teacher: sustaining the cultures of young children

Foster Learning Success for All Children with Culturally Responsive Practices Each of us is a cultural being. The culturally responsive strategies laid out in this book help you to understand the influences of your own culture on your teaching and to center children’s cultures—including their kno...

Becoming a doctor

Becoming a Doctor is an intimate account of one person’s transformation from naïve student to professorial physician. Packed with unforgettable anecdotes and surprising insights, the book is far more than a memoir of medical education. Chapter by chapter, it exposes the challenging issues that do...

Becoming a management consultant

Becoming a Management Consultant focuses on a different aspect of being a successful management consultant – from effective listening to leadership styles, self-employment, attracting prospective clients, and everything else in between. There are also exercises to be completed to help the reader ...

Becoming a manager

Making the leap to management and leadershipIn your career, or anyone's, there is one transition that stands out as the most crucial—going from individual contributor to competent manager.New managers have to learn how to lead others rather than do the work themselves, to win trust and respect, t...

Becoming a platform in europe

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. This book critically explores the collaborative economy, it examines governance, labour, and platform design, offering insights to shape future policies, technologies, and business models.

Becoming a resonant leader

What distinguishes great leaders? Exceptional leaders capture passion. They lead for real: from the heart, smart and focused on the future, and with a commitment to being their very best.As Annie McKee and Richard Boyatzis have shown in their bestselling books Primal Leadership and Resonant Leade...

Becoming an ally, 3rd edition

An updated 4th edition of this book is available now!Becoming an Ally is a book for men who want to end sexism, white people who want to end racism, straight people who want to end heterosexism, able-bodied people who want to end ableism — for all people who recognize their privilege and want to ...

Becoming an ally, 4th edition

Becoming an Ally explores the role of allies in the struggle against structural oppressions like racism, sexism and heterosexism.

Becoming an ecologist

John A. Wiens traces his journeys through several subfields of ecology—and, in so doing, gives readers an inside look at how science actually works.

Becoming an engaged educational leader

Becoming an Engaged Educational Leader explores the often-overlooked mid-career phase in educational leadership. Addressing unique challenges and drawing on global experiences, the book stimulates critical thinking and dialogue for leaders at this stage. It offers valuable insights for educationa...

Becoming an environmental psychologist

This book explores the interdisciplinary pathways that environmental psychologists have taken to become educators, researchers, and consultants in this highly applied and growing field. Individuals with backgrounds in architecture, urban planning, and geography, as well as in the health sciences ...

Becoming arab

How late medieval Middle Eastern peasants adopted Arab cultural identities and formed village clansDuring the later Middle Ages, peasants in Egypt and Greater Syria came to view themselves as members of Arab clans that had originated in the Arabian Peninsula. They expressed their Arab identity by...

Becoming asia

At the conclusion of World War II, Asia was hardly more than a geographic expression. Yet today we recognize Asia as a vibrant and assertive region, fully transformed from the vulnerable nation-states that emerged following the Second World War. The transformation was by no means an inevitable on...

Becoming black political subjects

After decades of denying racism and underplaying cultural diversity, Latin American states began adopting transformative ethno-racial legislation in the late 1980s. In addition to symbolic recognition of indigenous peoples and black populations, governments in the region created a more pluralisti...

Becoming boundless

How do Indian men and women migrant entrepreneurs play a part in repositioning India as a pivotal actor in the twenty-first century's multipolar world order? In Becoming Boundless, Manashi Ray draws on ethnographic and archival research to uncover how they create and participate in transnational ...

Becoming chinese

This volume evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of twentieth-century Chinese identity. The contributors, all leading researchers, argue that war, no less than revolution, deserves attention as a major force in the making of twentieth-century Chinese history. Furthe...

Becoming digital

This book examines the convergence of Cloud Computing, Big Data, and the Internet of Things to forge the Next Internet. Ubiquitous computing enables universal communication, concentration of power, privacy erosion, environmental degradation, and massive automation and this title explores solving ...

Becoming donor-conceived

While it has been argued that anonymity in gamete donation has been brought to an end, Amelie Baumann suggests that this is in fact still in transformation. By focusing on the narratives of those who were conceived with anonymously donated gametes, she examines this transformative process and the...

Becoming east german

innovative focus on subjective experiences of ordinary East Germans. New approaches to study of everyday life beyond the Iron Curtain. International group of scholars from Europe and North America Powerful critique/reappraisal of mainstream scholarly/popular interpretations of Ea...

Becoming europe

“We’re becoming like Europe.” This expression captures many Americans’ sense that something has changed in American economic life since the Great Recession’s onset in 2008: that an economy once characterized by commitments to economic liberty, rule of law, limited government, and personal respons...

Becoming foucault

Though Michel Foucault is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, little is known about his early life. Even Foucault’s biographers have neglected this period, preferring instead to start the story when the future philosopher arrives in Paris.Becoming Foucault is a historical...

Becoming george orwell

The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering iconIs George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden’s provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. Rodden does not argue that Orwell was the most distinguished ...

Becoming global asia

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.Becoming Global Asia centers Singapore as a crucial site for comprehending the uneven effects of colonialism and capitalism. In t...

Becoming great universities

How campus communities of every kind can transform themselves from good to greatBecoming Great Universities highlights ten core challenges that all colleges and universities face and offers practical steps that everyone on campus—from presidents to first-year undergraduates—can take to enhance st...

Becoming guanyin

Yuhang Li examines how lay Buddhist women in late imperial China forged a connection with the subject of their devotion, arguing that women used their own bodies to echo that of Guanyin. She combines empirical research with theoretical insights from both art history and Buddhist studies.

Becoming human again

Genocide involves significant death and trauma. Yet the enormous scope of genocide comes into view when one looks at the factors that lead to mass killing, the struggle for survival during genocide, and the ways survivors reconstruct their lives after the violence ends. Over a one hundred day per...

Becoming inclusive

This book explores the need for leaders to foster inclusion in diverse environments. Drawing from Dr. Helen Fagan's personal journey, the book examines systemic bias and offers strategies for leaders to overcome personal barriers. It emphasizes transforming mindsets from tribal to global to addre...

Becoming japanese

In 1895 Japan acquired Taiwan as its first formal colony after a resounding victory in the Sino-Japanese war. For the next fifty years, Japanese rule devastated and transformed the entire socioeconomic and political fabric of Taiwanese society. In Becoming Japanese, Leo Ching examines the formati...

Becoming jewish in berlin

Vanessa Rau provides a captivating portrait and analysis of a new Jewish-Hebrew urban scene.

Becoming judy chicago

Born to Jewish radical parents in Chicago in 1939, Judy Cohen grew up to be Judy Chicago—one of the most daring and controversial artists of her generation. Her works, once disparaged and misunderstood by the critics, have become icons of the feminist movement, earning her a place among the most ...

Becoming little shell

Winner of the Reading the West Book AwardWinner of the Pacific Northwest Book AwardA People Best Memoir of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of the Year SelectionA Book Riot Best Book of the Year“I’m in awe of Chris La Tray’s storytelling. Becoming Little Shell creates a multilayered narra...

Becoming lyla dore

The provocative fall and rise of a beautiful silent film star recounted through a series of persona poems that are indelibly lush and cinematic.

Becoming marxist

Marxism, to be truly relevant, must engage in constant critical encounter with contemporary ideas. Stolze shows us how to Become Marxist.