A Tone Parallel to Duke Ellington
The Man in the Music
Ellington’s music with fresh thematic explorations to delight music lovers
Welcome to Florida
True Tales from America's Most Interesting State
In these stories, Craig Pittman introduces readers to the people, creatures, places, and issues that make up the Florida of today, capturing the heart of the nation’s fastest growing state.
The Twilight of Rome's Papal Nobility
The Life of Agnese Borghese Boncompagni Ludovisi
The Twilight of Rome’s Papal Nobility is an intimate look at an ancient papal family who grew up accustomed to almost unimaginable wealth, power, and glamour. A tender elegy to a bygone era, this book offers a first-hand account of late nineteenth-century Italy’s social upheavals as the family’s vast private villa is divided up into public lands.
The High School
Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903-2024
Taking over a century’s worth of yearbooks from his alma mater, Salinas High School, as a historical archive, acclaimed sociologist Michael A. Messner discovers a not-so-distant time when all the cheerleaders were boys and nearly equal attention was paid to boys’ and girls’ sports. In the process, he explores the changing meanings of high school athletics.
Specters of War
The Battle of Mourning in Postconflict Central America
Specters of War explores mourning practices in postwar Central America, particularly in El Salvador and Guatemala. Sarmiento delves into the intricate dynamics of grieving through an interdisciplinary lens, analyzing expressions of mourning in literature, theater, and sites of memory. At the heart of this analysis is the contention over who has the right to mourn, how mourning is performed, and who is included in this process. Mourning is a battleground where different societal factions vie for the possibility of grieving the dead.
Say Her Name
Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sport
Say Her Name: Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sports offers an in-depth look into the lived experiences of Blackgirlwomen as athletes, activists, and everyday people through a Black feminist lens. With so much research on race centered on Black men and gender research focusing on white women, Say Her Name offers a necessary conversation that places Blackgirlwomen at the center of discussion.
Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours
In Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours, Octavio Quintanilla takes us on a profound journey through borders and disquiet, love and longing, the unsaid and the unsayable. The perpetual search for wholeness is confounded and shadowed by all the brutal things intent on breaking us: distance, time, language. In these poems, the lyrical and concrete intertwine—complicating our notions of immigration, imagination, and identity. Culminating in a long poem that closes the collection, Las Horas Imposibles is an inevitable revelation of vulnerability amid quiet violence.
Islamists in a Zionist Coalition
The Political and Religious Origins
Islamists in a Zionist Coalition explores a political drama that shocked Israel and the world in 2021: the decision of an Islamist party to join a Zionist coalition, and its elevation to the position of "king-maker" in Israeli politics. Based on analyses of hundreds of texts and exclusive interviews, it uncovers the religious and political origins of a development that will greatly impact Israeli society in years to come.
Films That Spill
Beyond the Cinema of Transgression
Films That Spill takes up a previously understudied moment in 1980s underground culture in New York City called Cinema of Transgression, offering both a microhistory of the intermingling art, music, performance, and film scenes of the time and a glimpse into their afterlives.
At Home with the Holocaust
Postmemory, Domestic Space, and Second-Generation Holocaust Narratives
Based on analyses of literature and oral histories of children of survivors, At Home with the Holocaust reveals how the material conditions of survivor-family homes, along with household practices and belongings, rendered these homes as archives of trauma that in turn traumatized the children of Holocaust survivors.
Apocalyptic Crimes
Why Nuclear Weapons Are Illegal and Must Be Abolished
Ronald C. Kramer applies theories from criminology to argue that possession of nuclear weapons is a criminal act and shows how a nuclear apocalypse might be averted, offering a pathway to the abolition of these devastating weapons.
Historic Sugar Mills in Santo Domingo
Case Studies in Adaptive Reuse
Conversations with Extinct Animals
A Novel
An experimental narrative by eco-fiction author and poet Patrick Lawler evolves out of the interactions between twenty-four extinct animals and those characters who struggle for significance in the face of their own extinction
William Faulkner in Holly Springs
An intriguing argument and exploration that expands the Nobel Laureate’s “postage stamp of native soil”
Why Alanis Morissette Matters
The Hohokam and Their World
An Exploration of Art and Iconography
The Hohokam and Their World explores how the Hohokam used art forms such as pottery, shell ornaments, carved stone, and rock imagery to convey their views of the world and their ideas about water, the Sonoran Desert, the ocean, travel, ancestors, and the cosmos.
Star Gazers
Finding Joy in the Night Sky
A flash, a single streak of light, is what sparked David Levy’s passion for astronomy more than sixty years ago. In this delightful collection of essays, Levy shares not only his love for the sky and stars, but also his love for language and literature. With the voice of a poet and the eye of a skilled, albeit amateur, astronomer, Levy takes us on a glorious adventure as large as the universe.
Standing for Nature
Legal Strategies for Environmental Justice
Standing for Nature is an essential resource for environmental lawyers, policy makers, and advocates. It offers a blueprint for creating, implementing, and safeguarding rights of Nature laws. Granting rights to nature has the potential to expand environmental protections, strengthen indigenous rights, promote environmental justice, and alter how humans relate to nature. Despite these promises, rights of Nature laws have met with greater resistance in some countries than in others. This book looks closely at four examples--New Zealand, Colombia, Bangladesh, and the United States--to bring together valuable lessons for proponents of the rights of Nature movement around the world.