Trials of the state

Norman Mailer at 100

By encouraging a reconsideration of Norman Mailer’s career from its beginnings to his final books in the early twenty-first century, this volume

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Time Has Grown Short

In this rich exploration of Rene GirardÂ’s insights, his French editor and longtime collaborator Benoit Chantre brings Saint PaulÂ’s Letter to the Rom

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Left-Armed Corps

Collects and annotates a unique and little-known body of Civil War literature: narrative sketches, accounts, and poetry by veterans who lost the use o

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Irreconcilable Founders

David Johnson uses Spencer Roane's conflict with John Marshall as ballast for the first-ever biography of this highly influential but largely forgotte

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John L.O'Sullivan and His Times

This work charts the life of 19th-century journalist, diplomat, adventurer, and enthusiast John Louis O'Sullivan. It presents an in-depth examination

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Dear Chester, Dear John

Chester Himes and John A Williams met in 1961, as Himes was on the cusp of transcontinental celebrity and Williams, sixteen years his junior, was just

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Comedian as Confidence Man

In this lively and fascinating analysis of humourists and their work, Will Kaufman breaks new ground with his irony fatigue theory. The Comedian as Co

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Treme

Analyses how the HBO television series Treme treads new ground by engaging with historical events and their traumatic aftermaths. Instead of building

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Queering Anti-Zionism

With engaged scholarship and an exciting contribution to the field of Israel/Palestine studies, queer scholar-activist Corinne Blackmer stages a point

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Creole Son

The compelling memoir of a single white mother searching to understand why her adopted biracial son grew from a happy child into a troubled young adul

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Approximate Gestures

Argues that the writing of Percival Everett compels readers to retrain their thinking habits and to value uncertainty. Stewart maintains that Everett'

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Performing Jane

Jane Austen has resonated with readers across generations like no other writer. More than two hundred years after the publication of Pride and Prejudi

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This Tilted World Is Where I Live

Gathers one hundred poems by Henry Taylor, drawing on over fifty years of published work by this witty, adept, and vital literary voice. The book open

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Soldier's Two Bodies

Investigates an overlooked genre of early American literature - the Revolutionary War veteran narrative - showing that it by turns both promotes and c

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Laughter After

Argues that humour performs political, cultural, and social functions in the wake of horror. David Slucki, Gabriel Finder and Avinoam Patt have assemb

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Black People Are My Business

Studies the works of Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995), an author, documentary filmmaker, social activist, and professor. Thabiti Lewis's analysis serves

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Wilderness, Water, and Rust

Weaving together memories from her life in the upper Midwest with nearly fifty years of environmental policy advocacy work, Elder provides a uniquely

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Lost Conversation

A collection of interviews with New York theater artists who have spent their lives working in and inventing the avant-garde.

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Nighthawk's Evening

A work of science writing that will appeal to traditional birders, students, the new ‘punk birder’ movement, and anyone who is fascinated by urban w

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Swedish Mentality

This text examines Swedish culture and mentality and draws upon statistics gathered over more than a decade of research. The author describes a range

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Speculum Lapidum

A full translation of Camillo LeonardiÂ’s Speculum Lapidum, with an introduction and annotations. Examines the role that medical astrology and astral

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First Viral Images

Examines internet virality as a critical framework for considering early modern artworksÂ’ global mobility and replication. Explores the role of artis

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Ethics for Apocalyptic Times

Examines the writing of Sofia Samatar, Samuel R. Delany, Casey Plett, Miriam Toews, and others to theorize theapoetics, a queer feminist decolonial re

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SKiNFoLK: An American Show

A wide-sweeping concert/play structured in seven movements that explores the questions and limits (?) of blackness, performance, and country in a sens

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DisOrientations

Explores the German-Turkish literary-cultural relationship from 1811 to 1946, focusing on literary translation as a complex mode of cultural, politica

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Picatrix

An English translation, with accompanying introduction, commentary, and notes, of the medieval treatise on astrological magic known as Picatrix, a gui

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Parakeet

An account in graphic novel format, based on the authorÂ’s own experiences, of a boy coping with his motherÂ’ suffering from bipolar disorder and schi

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What Things Do

Focuses on how technologies mediate our actions and our world perceptions. Peter-Paul Verbeek examines the philosophy of technology formulated by Jasp

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Problematic Public

Explores the reception history of Walter Lippmann's and John Dewey's ideas about publics, communication, and political decision-making and assesses th

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Pre-Columbian Bestiary

Explores forty-six religious, mythical, and imaginary creatures that are integral to the aboriginal worldview of Aymara, Aztecs, Incas, Maya, Nahua, T

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To Heaven or to Hell

The first complete English translation and annotated study of Bartolomé de Las Casas’s 1552 Confesionario. Explores its history and its guidelines f

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Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson

Explores the work of professional blues musician Lonnie Johnson, demonstrating how his recorded works reveal lyrical and musical themes that call into

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Leonce Rosenberg’s Cubism

Explores cubism and interwar modernism, focusing on the career of art dealer LĂ©once Rosenberg and his Parisian gallery, LÂ’Effort Moderne.

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Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature

A collection of essays exploring medieval rape culture, survivorsÂ’ speech, and female subjectivity in a late medieval lyric genre known as the pastou

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Jacob's Apartment

Follows the stories, in graphic novel format, of two twenty-something roommates, one Christian and one atheist, as they seek to find their place in th

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Twister

A fictionalized narrative, in graphic novel format, of the authorÂ’s experiences as a quadriplegic following injuries he sustained from an accident.

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COVID Chronicles

A collection of short comics about the COVID-19 pandemic. Diverse artists address disruptions in work, school, and family life as well as failures in

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London Yiddishtown

Presents a selection of previously un-translated short stories and sketches by Katie Brown, A.M. Kaizer, and I.A. Lisky, for the general reader and ac

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Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Consult - Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures PDA

Now available for mobile devices! Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Consult: Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures: Canine and Feline is a comprehensive, one-stop reference on diagnostic skills used daily in treating dogs and cats. Chapters cover more than 275 procedures and tests, including blood, urine, and fecal tests and radiographic, ultrasound, and endoscopi...

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"The Amazing Iroquois" and the Invention of the Empire State

"The Amazing Iroquois" and the Invention of the Empire State tells the story of a multi-generational Iroquoian family from American Revolution to the

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Transition, Taxation and the State

In economic terms three of the most important and controversial issues of our times are transition, taxation and the role of the state. This book exam

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Europe's new state of welfare

It is often argued that the regulated labour markets, relatively generous social protection and relative wage equality of European welfare states has

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Man, the State, and War

What are the causes of war? To answer this question, Waltz examines the ideas of major thinkers throughout the history of Western civilization. He exp

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Marxism and the Capitalist State

This book builds on the recent revival of interest in Marx and Marxism, calling for a renewal and refinement of Marxist state theory.

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Future State: The Next Batman

The DC timeline has been shattered, and the pieces of a dark possible Future State are reflected!

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Pluriversal Sovereignty and the State

This book explains how the processes of ‘total territorial rule’ at the core of the modern international system became normalised in Ceylon (Sri Lan

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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

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War, Technology and the State

This book explores the relationship between the state and war within the context of seismic technological change. Through its analysis, the book quest

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Work and the Carceral State

The politics of punishment meet labour exploitation in this new analysis

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Missionaries and the Colonial State

Catholic and Protestant missionaries followed their own, competing agendas rather than those of the colonial state. This volume unravels these agendas

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Hy-Pro Seeds Enemy of the State 3ks (Feminizovaná semena Enemy of the State 3ks)

Hy-Pro Seeds Enemy of the State feminizovaná Kříženec Neville Haze a tajné genetiky od Hy-Pro. Převážně Sativa Genetika: Neville's haze. Feminizovaná semínka od šlechtitele jménem Zwiep.

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Hy-Pro Seeds Enemy of the State 5ks (Feminizovaná semena Enemy of the State 5ks)

Hy-Pro Seeds Enemy of the State feminizovaná 5ks Kříženec Neville Haze a tajné genetiky od Hy-Pro. Převážně Sativa Genetika: Neville's haze. Feminizovaná semínka od šlechtitele jménem Zwiep.

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Hy-Pro Seeds Enemy of the State 10ks (Feminizovaná semena Enemy of the State 10ks)

Hy-Pro Seeds Enemy of the State feminizovaná 10ks Kříženec Neville Haze a tajné genetiky od Hy-Pro. Převážně Sativa Genetika: Neville's haze. Feminizovaná semínka od šlechtitele jménem Zwiep.

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Power Elite and the State

This volume presents a network of social power, indicating that theories inspired by C

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Man, the State, and War

In this landmark work of international relations theory, first published in 1959, the eminent realist scholar Kenneth N. Waltz offers a foundational a

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Who Was Accused in the Salem Witch Trials?: Tituba

Discover the Salem witch trials through the eyes of Tituba, one of the first women to be accused of witchcraft, in this gripping graphic novel written

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Statistical Design, Monitoring, and Analysis of Clinical Trials

This book concentrates on the biostatistics component of clinical trials. This new, second edition is updated throughout and includes three new chapte

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Design and Analysis of Pragmatic Trials Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book begins with an introduction of pragmatic cluster randomized trials (PCTs) and reviews various pragmatic issues that need to be addressed by statisticians at the design stage. It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each type of PCT, and provides sample size formulas, sensitivity analyses, and examples for sample size calculation. The generalized estimat...

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Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection

Explores the legal culture that informed the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 and its trials. Linda Myrsiades examines conflicts between state and federal co

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Case Studies of Famous Trials and the Construction of Guilt and Innocence

From the trials of Oscar Pistorius to O. J. Simpson and Michael Jackson, this innovative book provides a critical review of 11 high profile criminal c

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