Soloveitchik's Children
Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America
A close study of three of Soloveitchik’s most influential disciples in Jewish thought and philosophy
Soloveitchik's Children
Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America
A close study of three of Soloveitchik’s most influential disciples in Jewish thought and philosophy
Selling Science Fiction Cinema
Making and Marketing a Genre
How science fiction films in the 1950s were marketed and helped create the broader genre itself.
Bending Archaeology toward Social Justice
Transformational Action for Positive Peace
Introduces an analytic model for how archaeologists can work toward social justice
Astros and Asterisks
Houston's Sign-Stealing Scandal Explained
An in-depth and multiperspectival look at the Astros’ sign-stealing scandal and its roots in the culture of baseball fandom.
The Boundaries of Ancient Trade
Kings, Commoners, and the Aksumite Salt Trade of Ethiopia
Drawing on rich ethnographic data as well as archaeological evidence, The Boundaries of Ancient Trade challenges long-standing conceptions of highly centralized sociopolitical and economic organization and trade along the Afar salt trail—one of the last economically significant caravan-based trade routes in the world.
Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth, Second Edition
Weather, Climate Change, and Finding Deep Powder in Utah's Wasatch Mountains and Around the World
Utah has long claimed to have the greatest snow on Earth—the state itself has even trademarked the phrase. In Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth, Jim Steenburgh investigates Wasatch weather, exposing the myths, explaining the reality, and revealing how and why Utah’s powder lives up to its reputation.
North of America
Canadians and the American Century, 1945–60
North of America takes a fresh, sharp-eyed look at how Canadians of all stripes reacted to political, economic, and cultural events and influences emanating from postwar America.
An Ocean Garden
The Secret Life of Seaweed
In this captivating book, artist and avid beachcomber Josie Iselin reveals the unexpected beauty of seaweed. Produced on a flatbed scanner, Iselin’s vibrant portraits of ocean flora reveal the exquisite color and extraordinary forms of more than two hundred specimens gathered from tidal pools along the California and Maine coasts. Her engaging text, which accompanies the images, blends personal observation and philosophical musings with scientific fact. Now available in paperback for the first time, this edition includes a new foreword and updated nomenclature. An Ocean Garden is a poetic and compelling tribute to the natural world and the wonder it evokes.
Stepping Away
Returning to the Faculty After Senior Academic Leadership
Senior leadership transitions in higher education are inevitable. Given their ubiquity, those who work in colleges and universities share the responsibility to make these changing of the guard moments beneficial both for institutions and leaders. Moving beyond the well-worn cliché of "stepping down," Stepping Away identifies policies that institutions, administrators, chairs, and members of governing boards can enact as leaders assume a new place in the social architecture of their campus.
Scouting for the Bluecoats
Navajos, Apaches, and the U.S. Military, 1873–1911
Murder Town, USA
Homicide, Structural Violence, and Activism in Wilmington
Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 2
Literature, the Arts, and the Aesthetic in Britain
Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 1
Politics, Religion, Economy, and Society in Britain
Historicizing the Enlightenment (2 Vol Set)
This book “historicizes” the British Enlightenment, 1650-1800, as the beginning of the modern world by reconstructing what it was like to live through the emergence of concepts and practices that have come to define the character of daily existence.
Designing Women
The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture
Defiant Bodies
Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean
Bishops and Bodies
Reproductive Care in American Catholic Hospitals
Four out of the ten largest U.S. health care systems follow the policies of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that forbid abortion, sterilization, and related treatments in their hospitals. Drawing on rich interviews with patients and providers, Bishops and Bodies shows how these opaque restrictions conflict with medical standards, producing unjust and unequal reproductive care.