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The Underdogs
Translation
by Sergio Waisman, Associate Professor of Spanish (2008)
New translation of Mariano Azuela's novel about the first great revolution of the 20th century in the Mexican countryside.
Cultural Diversity in the British Middle
Ages:
Archipelago, Island, England
By Jeffrey J. Cohen, Professor of English;
Contribution by GW alumnus ('02) Jon Kenneth Williams (2008)
This collection of essays connects the
Normans of Sicily with the rulers of England, or Chaucer with
legends arriving from Bohemia. It can also be seen in surprising
places in literature, as when green children are discovered in
twelfth-century Yorkshire or when Welsh animals begin to speak of
the long history of their land’s colonization. The contributors to
this volume seek moments of cultural admixture and heterogeneity
within texts that have often been assumed to belong to a single,
national canon, discovering moments when familiar and bounded space
erupt into unexpected diversity and infinite realms. Living As Equals Through interviews with leaders and
participants and historical archives, the author documents three
interracial sites where white Americans put themselves into
unprecedented relationships with African Americans, Mexican
Americans, and Asian Americans. America Between the
Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11 America Between The Wars examines
how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the
Berlin Wall on 11/9 and the collapse of the Twin Towers on 9/11
shaped the events, arguments and politics of the world we live in
today. The book tells the story of a generation of leaders grappling
with a moment of dramatic transformation, changing how we should
think about the recent past, and uncovering important lessons for
the future.
Slate named the book one of its Best Books of 2008.
Read the review in The New York Times. Cities and Nature Cities and Nature illustrates how the
city is part of the environment, and how it is subject to
environmental constraints and opportunities. This book reconnects
the science and social science through the examination of the urban.
It critiques the dominant academic discourse which ignores the
environmental base of urban life and living, and discusses the urban
natural environment.
The mass spectrometric analysis of metabolites
and proteins promises to revolutionize medical research and clinical
diagnostics. This book addresses key issues in its medical
application, from basic principles and methods to cutting-edge
applications.
Authors lend new awareness about the Venetian nun
and writer Arcangela Tarabotti, who published her collection of
personal correspondence in 1650. L Patty Kelly examines the lives of the women who
work in a state-run brothel. Kelly documents the modernization of
the sex industry and illustrates how state-regulated sex became part
of a broader effort by government officials to bring modernity to
Chiapas, one of Mexico's poorest and most conflicted states. Read Patty Kelly's opinion
piece in the L.A. Times
here. Country Brothers:
Kinship and Chronotope in Brazilian Rural Public Culture
Anthropological Quarterly, Volume 80, No. 2 Brazilian "country" music, both in its commercial
(música sertaneja) and folkloric (música caipira)
forms, is performed by duplas (duos), most often of
brothers. Dent accounts for the increasing popularity of brotherhood
as the means of organizing rural musical performance. Violent Belongings:
Partition, Gender and National Culture in Postcolonial India
The Anxiety of
Dispossession: Jealousy in 19th-century French Culture
Tools for Planning
Successful Museum Building Projects In an era of expanded responsibility
and constricted funding, museum personnel often need strong
practical guidance on the best practices for building projects. This
book discusses the reasons for undertaking building projects, the
roles and responsibilities of key players, the importance of a
strong vision, and the best methods for selecting architects and
construction firms. They also offer information about budgeting and
finance, feasibility studies, capital campaigns, marketing, and
communications, as well as advice on how to live through the
disorienting process of construction, manage post-opening needs, and
evaluate the project's success over time. Sacred
Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the
Atlantic World A fascinating story of contact,
exploration, and exchange in the Atlantic world, "Sacred Gifts,
Profane Pleasures" traces the ways in which these two goods of the
Americas both changed and were changed by Europe.
This volume provides a general
overview of the basic ethical and philosophical issues of animal
rights. By presenting models for understanding animals' moral status
and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, DeGrazia
explores the implications for how we should treat animals in
connection with our diet, zoos, and research.
Refiguring the Ordinary
This book studies the importance of translation
for Borges and the importance of Borges for translation.
This collection includes Sten's essay, "Facts
Picked Up in the Pacific: Fragmentation, Deformation and the
(Cultural) Uses of Enchantment in 'The Encantadas.'" The essay is
based on a series of sketches Herman Melville wrote about the
Galapagos Islands.
A collection of the work of Leopoldo Lugones, one
of Argentina's best-known writers. Reason and Hope:
Knowledge, Belief, and the Future of Humanity This book is a printing of Caws' lecture in 2006,
in which he makes a connection between reason and rationality, and
an attitude of hope toward the future in American politics.
Gente's task-based approach to teaching
language is a complete elementary Spanish program. The activities
have contexts, non-linguistic goals, linguistics goals,
non-linguistics outcomes and linguistics outcomes that enable
readers to learn the language and understand the culture.
Offering penetrating analyses by leading scholars
in the field, Migrants to the Metropolis redirects the global
narrative surrounding migration away from states and borders and
toward cities, where the vast majority of economic migrants settle.
The
Anxiety of Dispossession: Jealousy in
Nineteenth-Century French Culture This book covers the years from 1818 to 1898, and
shows how the subject of jealousy was used as a projection screen
for social and cultural debates in the decades between the French
Revolution's radical challenge to religious and political authority,
and the advent of psychoanalysis at the century's end.
Selected as
Library Journal Best Books, 2007, this investigation
communications a much-needed truth: Autism is both a disease
(biological) and an illness, i.e., a life-altering experience
completely at odds with society. Hope comes in vignettes of parents
across the world who've adapted to their children's "unstrange"
worldviews.
Cline looks at the most enduring biblical
mysteries: Was there really a Garden of Eden, and if so, where was
it? What happened to Noah's ark? Did the Israelites really trek
through the desert for 40 years? What happened to the 10 lost tribes
of Israel? Cline advances his own theories about what happened and
mentioning alternative opinions.
This book provides public
and nonprofit leaders and students with theoretical knowledge and
practical tools for acomplishing change goals while protecting the
broader public interest
By
Phyllis Palmer, Professor of American Studies and Women's Studies
(2008)
By Jim Goldgeier, Professor of
Political Science (2008)
By Lisa Benton-Short with John Ronnie
Short (2008)
Medical
Applications of Mass Spectrometry
By Akos Vertes, Professor of
Chemistry, along with Karoly Vekey and Andras Telekes (2007)
Arcangela
Tarabotti: Lettere Familiari E Di Complimento
By Lynn Westwater, Assistant Professor of
Italian, along with Meredith Ray and Gabriella Zarri
ydia's
Open Door: Inside Mexico's Most Modern Brothel
By Patty Kelly, Assistant Professor of
Anthropology (2008)
By Andrew Dent, Assistant Professor of
Anthropology
By Kavita Daiya (2008)
Violent
Belongings is about the relation between culture and violence
in the modern world, exploring contemporary ethnic and gendered
violence, and the questions about belonging that trouble nations and
nationalisms today. Kavita Daiya examines South Asian ethnic
violence and related mass migration in and after 1947 through its
representation in postcolonial Indian and, more broadly, global
South Asian literature and culture.
By Masha Belenky (2008)
In
19th-century France an obsession with jealousy swept the culture as
a whole. Belenky argues that it was through narratives of jealousy
that writers grappled with the crises of political and moral
authority, anxieties surrounding changing gender roles, and new
ideas about marriage that defined post-Revolutionary France.
By Martha Morris, Associate Professor of
Museum Studies (2009)
By
Marcy Norton, Associate Professor of History (2008)
Animal
Rights: A Very Short Introduction
By David DeGrazia, Associate
Professor of Philosophy (2008)
By Gail Weiss, Professor of
Philosophy (2008)
Refiguring
the Ordinary examines the ways in which individuals' bodies,
habits, environments, and abilities function as horizons that
underpin their understandings of the ordinary. These features of
experience, according to Gail Weiss, are never neutral, but are
always affected by gender, race, social class, ethnicity,
nationality, and perceptions of bodily normality.
Borges
and Translation: The Irreverence of the Peripheryn
By Sergio Waisman, Assistant Professor of
Spanish (2008)
Whole
Oceans Away:
Melville and the Pacific
By Christopher Sten, Professor of English and
American Literature, along with
Jill Barnum and Wyn Kelley (2008)
Leopoldo
Lugones: Selected Writings
Translated by Sergio Waisman,
Associate Professor of Spanish (2008)
By Peter Caws, Professor of Philosophy
Gente:
Elementary and Intermediate Spanish
By Maria de la Fuente, Associate Professor of Spanish
(2008)
Migrants
to the Metropolis: The Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities
By Marie Price and Lisa Benton-Short,
Associate Professors of Geography (2008)
By Marsha Belenky, Associate Professor of
French (2008)
Unstrange
Minds: Remapping the World of Autism
By Roy Richard Grinker, Professor of
Anthropology (2008)
From
Eden to Exile: Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible
By Eric Cline, Chair, Department of Classical
& Semitic Languages and Literature (2008)
Transforming
Public and Nonprofit Organizations: Stewardship for Leading Change
By Kathryn Newcomer, Professor of
Public Policy and Public Administration (2008)