The Railroad That Never WasVanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania RailroadHerbert H. Harwood, Jr.
"An important story that deserves its rightful place in every railroad historian's library." —Kurt Bell, archivist, Pennsylvania State Railroad Museum
Now in PaperbackExtraordinary CircumstancesThe Seven Days BattlesBrian K. Burton
A Selection of the History Book Club"A thoroughly researched and well-written volume that will surely be the starting point for those interested in this particular campaign." —
Journal of American History
Now in PaperbackWreck of the Carl D.A True Story of Loss, Survival, and Rescue at SeaMichael Schumacher
"Schumacher . . . cover[s] the ship’s shaky state, the harrowing wreck and risky rescue with assurance and clarity. . . . By profiling the Carl D.’s crew and detailing their lives . . . [he] gives a human face to the tragedy, infusing the book with dramatic substance to match the riveting narrative." —
Publishers Weekly
Kentucke's FrontiersCraig Thompson Friend
"Deftly weaving together numerous interpretive strands, Craig Friend’s first-rate study explains how the passage from 'Kentucke' to 'Kentucky' turned the first trans-Appalachian frontier from the leading edge of America’s New West to the border of its Old South. This book is both an essential and an elegant read." —Stephen Aron, author of
How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky From Daniel Boone to Henry Clay
Everyday Quantum RealityDavid A. Grandy
"Far from being completely counterintuitive and beyond our experience, the findings of quantum physics have many analogs in everyday life, which we have simply not seen because of the grip of the classical worldview on our thinking. . . . Everyday Quantum Reality makes an important and original argument." —Alexander Wendt, author of
Social Theory of International Politics
Natality and Finitude
Anne O'Byrne
Philosophers are accustomed to thinking about human existence as finite and deathbound. Anne O'Byrne focuses instead on birth as a way to make sense of being alive. Building on the work of Heidegger, Dilthey, Arendt, and Nancy, O'Byrne discusses how the world becomes ours and how meaning emerges from our relations to generations past and to come.
Ethical Life in South AsiaEdited by Anand Pandian and Daud Ali
"This stimulating and original volume of essays invites the reader to a rewarding engagement with a wide diversity of moral traditions and lived ethical practices in South Asia. . . . [O]ffers a rich mix of anthropological, historical, and textual analysis and will be of interest to readers of diverse backgrounds." —Barbara D. Metcalf, University of Michigan
Contemporary African Fashion
Edited by Suzanne Gott and Kristyne Loughran
Foreword by Joanne B. Eicher
"Well written, highly readable, and very accessible . . . covers a whole range of topics relating to various historical, economic, social, and artistic dimensions that constitute contemporary African fashion." —Mary Jo Arnoldi, Smithsonian Institution
Writing the Black Revolutionary DivaWomen's Subjectivity and the Decolonizing TextKimberly Nichele Brown
"The revolutionary divas in these works represent a response to the 'black woman as victim' argument that informs so much discussion of black women's subjectivity. [These] women writers emerge from the black folk experience not just as its representatives, but as an embodiment of its potential." —Alice A. Deck, University of Illinois
The Pleasures of ContaminationEvidence, Text, and Voice in Textual StudiesDavid Greetham
Through the concept of contamination, David Greetham highlights various ways that one text may invade another, carrying with it a residue of potential meaning. Tracing contamination from the Middle Ages onward, he takes up issues such as the placement of quote marks in Keats's "Ode to a Grecian Urn," the controversy over the use of evidence for "yellowcake" uranium in Niger, and the reconstitution of reality on YouTube, to illustrate that the basic questions of evidence, fact, and voice have always been slippery concepts.
Life Lessons through StorytellingChildren's Exploration of EthicsDonna Eder with Regina Holyan
Foreword by Gregory Cajete
In this book, Donna Eder interviews elementary students and presents their responses to stories from different cultures. Using Aesop’s fables and Kenyan and Navajo storytelling traditions as models for classroom use, Eder demonstrates the value of a cross-cultural approach to teaching through storytelling, while providing deep insights into the social psychology of learning.
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