By the Rivers of Babylon and Other Stories
Science, American Style
What is distinctive about American science?
For thirty years, Nathan Reingold has been exploring the character of science in the United States. His lively and influential essays look at the ways American science reflects our culture, history, politics, geography, and myths. He meditates on the growth of a scientific community and institutions in this country, American attitudes toward the uses of science, and the behavior of scientists and their chroniclers.
Rachel's Daughters
Newly Orthodox Jewish Women
A History Of Geology
A Life of Her Own
A Countrywoman in Twentieth-Century France
The The Communist Party of the United States
From the Depression to World War II
Fraser M. Ottanelli examines the history of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) from the stock market crash to the reconstitution of the Party in 1945. He explains the appeal of the CPUSA and its emergence as the foremost vehicle of left-wing radicalism during these years. Ottanelli looks at the Party's domestic policies and activities concerning labor, race, youth, the unemployed, as well as the Party's changing attitude toward FDR and the New Deal, its policies in foreign affairs, and war-time activities.
The Idea of Spatial Form
Moods
American Suicide
Revising Memory
Women's Fictions and Memoirs in 17th-Century France
Revising Memory resurrects a particularly dynamic moment in French history when women acted on the political stage and inscribed these often subversive actions in writing.