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Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture

Louise Penner, Tabitha Sparks

• Hardcover | Engels | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• This collection of essays explores the rise of scientific medicine and its impact on Victorian popular culture. Chapters include an examination of Cha... Lees meer

Now You Know It All

Joanna Pearson

• Paperback | Engels | Drue Heinz Literature Prize | nr. 30
• Poised on the precipice of mystery and longing, each character in Now You Know It All also hovers on the brink of discovery--and decision. Set in smal... Lees meer

Local Histories

• Paperback | Engels | Composition, Literacy, and Culture | nr. 163
• In Local Histories, the contributors seek to challenge the widely held belief that the origin of American composition as a distinguishable discipline ... Lees meer

Intimate Enemies

Igal Halfin

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies | nr. 233
• Intimate Enemies is a brilliant study of the transformation of Bolshevik Party ideology, language, and power relations during the crucial period leadi... Lees meer

Los Archivos de Cuba

• Hardcover | Engels | Pitt Latin American | nr. 349
• The Archives of Cuba/Los archivos de Cuba is the first comprehensive guide to the archival holdings and manuscript collections located throughout the ... Lees meer

The Weak and the Powerful

Jonathan C Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Pitt Latin American
• Panama is a country whose geopolitical importance outweighs its size because of the volume of trade that passes the Central American isthmus through t... Lees meer

To Vote or Not to Vote

Andre Blais

• Paperback | Engels
• What makes people decide to vote? In addressing this simple question, Andr\u00e9 Blais examines the factors that increase or decrease turnout at the a... Lees meer

The Contracted World

Peter Meinke

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Poetry
• The Contracted World includes representative poems from four of Peter Meinke's previous collections. In poems that show us what it is like to grow up ... Lees meer

Researching Dance

• Paperback | Engels
• In Researching Dance, an introduction to research methods in dance addressed primarily to graduate students, the editors explore dance as evolutional,... Lees meer

The Niobe Poems

Kate Daniels

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Poetry
• Kate Daniels's central myth is that of Niobe, the mother in Greek mythology whose children were killed by the gods because of her great pride in them.... Lees meer

The Art of Drowning

Billy Collins

• Hardcover | Engels | Pitt Poetry
• This collection of poems has a subject matter ranging from the gustatory pleasures of osso buco to an analysis of the handwriting of Keats; from the a... Lees meer

Traffic Safety Reform in the United States and Great Britain

Jerome S Legge

• Paperback | Engels
• Recently, there has been a renewed concern with highway safety, reflected in wide media coverage and new laws aimed at reducing highway deaths and inj... Lees meer

Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century Peru

Ulrich Muecke

• Hardcover | Pitt Latin American Series
• Ulrich Muecke traces the history of Partido Civil, the first modern political party in Peru, and illustrates how it was a reaction to an economic tran... Lees meer

Media, Sound, & Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Latin American | nr. 349
• Outside of music, the importance of sound and listening have been greatly overlooked in Latin American history. Visual media has dominated cultural st... Lees meer

Newsrooms in Conflict

Sallie Hughes

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Latin American | nr. 349
• Newsrooms in Conflict examines the dramatic changes within Mexican society, politics, and journalism that transformed an authoritarian media instituti... Lees meer

Refuse

Julian Randall

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Poetry
• Set against the backdrop of the Obama presidency, Julian Randall's Refuse documents a young biracial man's journey through the mythos of Blackness, La... Lees meer

Logical Empiricism

• Paperback | Engels
• Logical empiricism, a program for the study of science that attempted to provide logical analyses of the nature of scientific concepts, the relation b... Lees meer

Fear

• Paperback | Engels
• This volume provides a cross-disciplinary examination of fear, that most unruly of our emotions, by offering a broad survey of the psychological, biol... Lees meer

The Many Voices of Modern Physics

Joseph E Harmon, Alan G Gross

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Many Voices of Modern Physics follows a revolution that began in 1905 when Albert Einstein published papers on special relativity and quantum theo... Lees meer

Palace of Culture

Robert Gangewere

• Paperback | Engels | Regional
• Andrew Carnegie is remembered as one of the worldÆs great philanthropists. As a boy, he witnessed the benevolence of a businessman who lent his person... Lees meer

Nationalizing Blackness

Robin Dale Moore

• Hardcover | Pitt Latin American Series
• Using the music of the 1920s and 1930s, this text examines Cuban society as it began to embrace Afrocuban culture. It demonstrates how music can funct... Lees meer

A Monastery for the Ibex

Wilko Graf Von Hardenberg

• Hardcover | Engels
• Finalist, 2023 Turku Book Award Gran Paradiso National Park is Italy's oldest, and was instrumental in preventing the extinction of the Alpine ibex be... Lees meer

The Left's Dirty Job

W.Rand Smith

• Hardcover
• Corporate restructuring is an aspect of a global transformation that is challenging businesses and governments. This book examines the question: what ... Lees meer

A Forced Agreement

Anne-Marie Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Latin American | nr. 349
• During much of the military regime in Brazil (1964-1985), an elaborate but illegal system of restrictions prevented the press from covering important ... Lees meer