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Cultures at the Susquehanna Confluence : the Diaries of the Moravian Mission to the Iroquois Confederacy, 1745-1755

Katherine Faull

Located at the confluence of the north and west branches of the Susquehanna River, Shamokin was a significant historical settlement in the region that became Pennsylvania. By the time the Moravians arrived to set up a mission in the 1740s, Shamokin had been a site of intertribal commerce and refuge for the Native peoples of Pennsylvania for several centuries. It served first as a Susquehannock, then a Shawnee, and then a primarily Lenape settlement and trading post, overseen by the Oneida leader and diplomat Shikellamy.

Cultures at the Susquehanna Confluence is an annotated translation of the diaries documenting the Moravian mission to the area. Unlike other missions of the time, the Moravians at Shamokin integrated their work and daily life into the diverse cultures they encountered, demonstrating an unusual compromise between the Church’s missionary impetus and the needs of the Six Nations of the Iroquois. The diaries counter the dominant vision of the area around Shamokin as a sinister place, revealing instead a nexus of vibrant cultural exchange where women and men speaking Lenape, Mohican, English, and German collaborated in the business of survival at a pivotal time.

The Shamokin diaries, which until now existed only in manuscript form in difficult-to-read German script in the Moravian Archives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, allow today’s readers to experience the Susquehanna confluence and the rich intercultural exchanges that took place there between Europeans and Native Americans. -- back cover
Forbes Burnham : the Life and Times of the Comrade Leader

Linden F. Lewis

It is virtually impossible to understand the history of modern Guyana without understanding the role played by Forbes Burnham. As premier of British Guiana, he led the country to independence in 1966 and spent two decades as its head of state until his death in 1985. An intensely charismatic politician, Burnham helped steer a new course for the former colony, but he was also a quintessential strongman leader, venerated by some of his citizens yet feared and despised by others.

Forbes Burnham: The Life and Times of the Comrade Leader is the first political biography of this complex and influential figure. It charts how the political party he founded, the People’s National Congress, combined nationalist rhetoric, socialist policies, and Pan-Africanist philosophies. It also explores how, in a country already deeply divided between the descendants of African slaves and Indian indentured servants, Burnham consolidated political power by intensifying ethnic polarizations. Drawing from historical archives as well as new interviews with the people who knew Burnham best, sociologist Linden F. Lewis examines how his dictatorial tendencies coexisted with his progressive convictions. Forbes Burnham is a compelling study of the nature of postcolonial leadership and its pitfalls. -- https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/
Dance in Musical Theatre : a History of the Body in Movement

Dustyn Martincich and Phoebe Rumsey

"From Oklahoma! and West Side Story, to Spring Awakening and Hamilton, dance remains one of the most important and key factors in musical theatre.

Dance in Musical Theatre offers guidelines in how to read this movement by analyzing it in terms of composition and movement vocabulary whilst simultaneously situating it both historically and critically. This collection provides the tools, terms, history, and movement theory for reading, interpreting, and centralizing a discussion of dance in musical theatre, importantly, with added emphasis on women and artists of color.

Bringing together musical theatre and dance scholars, choreographers and practitioners, this edited collection highlights musical theatre case studies that employ dance in a dramaturgically essential manner, tracking the emergence of the dancer as a key figure in the genre, and connecting the contributions to past and present choreographers. This collection foregrounds the work of the ensemble, incorporating firsthand and autoethnographic accounts that intersect with historical and cultural contexts.

Through a selection of essays, this volume conceptualizes the function of dance in musical: how it functions diegetically as a part of the story or non-diegetically as an amplification of emotion, as well as how the dancing body works to reveal character psychology by expressing an unspoken aspect of the libretto, embodying emotions or ideas through metaphor or abstraction.

Dance in Musical Theatre makes dance language accessible for instructors, students, and musical theatre enthusiasts, providing the tools to critically engage with the work of important choreographers and dancers from the beginning of the 20th century to today." -- back cover
Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities

Jeremy Chow

This groundbreaking new volume unites eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities, showcasing how these fields can vibrantly benefit one another. In eleven chapters that engage a variety of eighteenth-century texts, contributors explore timely themes and topics such as climate change, new materialisms, the blue humanities, indigeneity and decoloniality, and green utopianism. Additionally, each chapter reflects on pedagogical concerns, asking: How do we teach eighteenth-century environmental humanities? With particular attention to the voices of early-career scholars who bring cutting-edge perspectives, these essays highlight vital and innovative trends that can enrich both disciplines, making them essential for classroom use. -- publisher
The Queerness of Water : Troubled Ecologies in the Eighteenth Century

Jeremy Chow

This highly original book reconsiders canonical long eighteenth-century narratives through the conjoined lenses of queer studies and the environmental humanities. Moving from Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels to Gothic novels including Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Jeremy Chow investigates the role that bodies of water play in reading these central texts.

Chow navigates various representations and phases of water to magnify the element’s furtive yet pronounced effects on narrative, theory, and identity. Water, Chow reveals, is both a participant and a stage upon which bodily violation manifests. The sea, rivers, pools, streams, and glaciers all participate in a violent decolonialism that fractures, revises, and reshapes notions of colonial masculinity emerging throughout the long eighteenth century.

Through an innovative series of intermezzi, The Queerness of Water also traces the afterlives of eighteenth-century literature in late twentienth- and twenty-first-century film, television, and other popular media, opening up conversations regarding canon, literary criticism, pedagogy, and climate change. -- https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5867/
What We Teach When We Teach DH : Digital Humanities in the Classroom

Brian Croxall and Diane K. Jakacki

How has the field of digital humanities (DH) changed as it has moved from the corners of academic research into the classroom? And how has our DH praxis evolved through interactions with our students? This timely volume explores how DH is taught and what that reveals about the field of DH. While institutions are formally integrating DH into the curriculum and granting degrees, many instructors are still almost as new to DH as their students. As colleagues continue to ask what digital humanities is, we have the opportunity to answer them in terms of how we teach DH.

The contributors to What We Teach When We Teach DH represent a wide range of disciplines, including literary and cultural studies, history, art history, philosophy, and library science. Their essays are organized around four critical topics at the heart of DH pedagogy: teachers, students, classrooms, and collaborations. This book highlights how DH can transform learning across a vast array of curricular structures, institutions, and education levels, from high schools and small liberal arts colleges to research-intensive institutions and postgraduate professional development programs. -- back cover
Flirtation and Courtship in Nineteenth-Century British Culture ; v.1-3

John Hunter and Ghislaine McDayter

A three-volume set that brings together a rich collection of primary source materials on flirtation and courtship in the nineteenth-century. Introductory essays and extensive editorial apparatus offer historical and cultural contexts of the materials included

Throughout the long nineteenth-century, a woman’s life was commonly thought to fall into three discrete developmental stages; personal formation and a gendered education; a young woman’s entrance onto the marriage market; and finally her emergence at the apogee of normative femininity as wife and mother. In all three stages of development, there was an unspoken awareness of the duplicity at the heart of this carefully cultivated femininity. What women were taught, no matter their age, was that if you desired anything in life, it behooved you to perform indifference. This meant that for women, the art of flirtation and feigning indifference were viewed as essential survival skills that could guarantee success in life.

These three volumes document the many ways in which nineteenth-century women were educated in this seemingly universal wisdom, but just as frequently managed to manipulate, subvert, and navigate their way through such proscribed norms to achieve their own desires. Presenting a wide range of documents from novels, memoirs, literary journals, newspapers, plays, poetry, songs, parlour games, and legal documents, this collection will illuminate a far more diverse set of options available to women in their quest for happiness, and a new understanding of the operations of courtship and flirtation, the "central" concerns of a nineteenth-century woman’s life.

The volumes will be of interest to scholars of history, literature, gender and cultural studies, with an interest in the nineteenth-century. -- https://www.routledge.com
Gender, Sex and Sexuality in Musical Theatre : He/She/They Could Have Danced All Night

Kelly Kessler, Bryan Vandevender, and Dustyn Martincich

Critics and fans alike often mistake theatrical song and dance as evoking a sweeping sense of simplicity, heteronormativity, and traditionalism. Nothing drove home this cultural misunderstanding for Kelly Kessler as when a relative insisted she watch the Clint Eastwood-Lee Marvin cinematic transfer of Paddy Chayefsky’s Paint Your Wagon (1969) with a young niece and nephew because it was a ‘sweet movie.’ In the relative’s memory, good old-fashioned singing and dancing—matched with the power of an assumed hegemonic embrace of social norms—far outweighed the whoremongering, alcoholism, wife-selling, and what appears to be narratively sanctioned polyamory.

This collection seeks to trouble such an over-idealized impression of musical theatre. Tackling Rockettes, divas, and chorus boys; hit shows such as Hamilton and Spring Awakening; and lesser-known but ground-breaking gems like Erin Markey’s A Ride on The Irish Cream and Kirsten Childs’s Bella: An American Tall Tale.

Gender, Sex and Sexuality in Musical Theatre: He/She/They Could Have Danced All Night takes a broad look at musical theatre across a range of intersecting lenses such as race, nation, form, dance, casting, marketing, pedagogy, industry, platform-specificity, stardom, politics, and so on. This collection assembles an amazing group of established and emergent musical theatre scholars to wrestle with the complexities of the gendered and sexualized musical theatre form. Gender and desire have long been at the heart of the musical, whether because ‘birds and bees’ (and educated fleas’) were doing it, a farm girl simply couldn’t ‘say no,’ or one’s ‘tits and ass’ were preventing them from landing the part.

An exciting and vibrant collection of articles from the archives of Studies in Musical Theatre, with contributions from Ryan Donovan, Michele Dvoskin, Sherrill Gow, Jiyoon Jung, David Haldane Lawrence, Stephanie Lim, Dustyn Martinich, Adrienne Gibbons Oehlers, Deborah Paredez, Alejandro Postigo, George Rodosthenous, Janet Werther, Stacy Wolf, Elizabeth L. Wollman, Bryan Vandevender and Kelly Kessler, brought together with a newly commissioned piece by Jordan Ealey. All set against the backdrop of Kelly Kessler’s scene-setting introduction.

Excellent potential for classroom and course use on undergraduate and graduate courses in theatre studies, musical studies, women’s and gender studies. -- https://www.intellectbooks.com/gender-sex-and-sexuality-in-musical-theatre
The Origins and Consequences of Congressional Party Election Agendas

Scott Meinke

This Element examines congressional party election agendas, asking first how they originate and what priorities within the party they strategically represent and, second, how they shape postelection legislative activity and policymaking. After surveying post-1980 agenda efforts, it focuses on two prominent cases, the Republican Contract with America (1994) and the Democratic New Direction for America (2006). Using archived records and other qualitative evidence, it shows that both agendas were leadership-driven but were developed in lengthy and relatively inclusive processes. Quantifying agenda content, it demonstrates that the parties strategically skewed agenda promises toward select segments of the caucus, as measured in bill introduction priorities, and the promises echoed leadership messaging from speeches and floor motions in the Congress before the election. After winning a majority, both parties shifted the House’s legislative activity sharply toward agenda priorities, but the impact on policy outcomes was substantially constrained.
Interdisciplinary Insights from the Plague of Cyprian. Pathology, Epidemiology, Ecology and History

Mark Orsag, Amanda E. McKinney, and DeeAnn Reeder
Interdisciplinary insights from the Plague of Cyprian : pathology, epidemiology, ecology and history

DeeAnn Reeder, Mark Orsag, and Amanda E. McKinney

This book tackles the difficult challenge of uncovering the pathogenic cause, epidemiological mechanics and broader historical impacts of an extremely deadly third-century ancient Roman pandemic. The core of this research is embodied in a novel systems synthesis methodology that allows for ground-breaking historical-scientific problem-solving. Through precise historical and scientific problem-solving, analysis and modelling, the authors piece together a holistic puzzle portrait of an ancient plague that is fully consistent, in turn, with both the surviving ancient evidence and the latest in cutting edge twenty-first-century modern medical and molecular phylogenetic science. Demonstrating the broader relevance of the crisis-beset world of the third-century Roman Empire in providing guiding and cautionary historical lessons for the present, this innovative book provides fascinating insights for students and scholars across a range of disciplines. -- back cover
A Life of Worry: Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam's Age of Anxiety

Allen L. Tran

Who, what, and how we fear reflects who we are. In less than half a century, people in Vietnam have gone from fearing bombing raids, political persecution, and starvation to worrying about decisions over the best career path or cell phone plan. This shift in the landscape of people’s anxieties is the result of economic policies that made Vietnam the second-fastest-growing economy in the world and a triumph of late capitalist development. Yet as much as people marvel at the speed of progress, all this change can be difficult to handle.

A Life of Worry unpacks an ethnographic puzzle. What accounts for the simultaneous rise of economic prosperity and anxiety among Ho Chi Minh City’s middle class? The social context of anxiety in Vietnam is layered within the development of advanced capitalism, the history of the medical and psychological sciences, and new ways of drawing the line between self and society. At a time when people around the world are turning to the pharmaceutical and wellness industries to soothe their troubled minds, it is worth considering the social and political dynamics that make the promises of these industries so appealing.
MATLAB for Engineering and the Life Sciences

Joseph Tranquillo

This book is a self-guided tour of MATLAB for engineers and life scientists. It introduces the most commonly used programming techniques through biologically inspired examples. Although the text is written for undergraduates, graduate students and academics, as well as those in industry, will find value in learning MATLAB.

The book takes the emphasis off of learning syntax so that the reader can focus more on algorithmic thinking. Although it is not assumed that the reader has taken differential equations or a linear algebra class, there are short introductions to many of these concepts. Following a short history of computing, the MATLAB environment is introduced. Next, vectors and matrices are discussed, followed by matrix-vector operations. The core programming elements of MATLAB are introduced in three successive chapters on scripts, loops, and conditional logic. The last three chapters outline how to manage the input and output of data, create professional quality graphics and find and use MATLAB toolboxes. Throughout, biomedical and life science examples are used to illustrate MATLAB's capabilities. -- back cover
Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior

T. Joel Wade, Maryanne L. Fisher, Karla M. Kenny, and James Moran

Todd K. Shackelford, editor

Self-Promotion: Intrasexual Competition -- Intrasexual competition for mates is a pervasive phenomenon that occurs across animal species, including humans. This competition refers to the physical, social, and economic tactics used by individuals to attract desired mates. Typically, it is framed in terms of rivals of the same sex competing for mating access and retention of mates of the opposite sex (Buss, 1988). When attempting to persuade a potential mate to form a relationship, individuals may use the strategy of self-promotion, conceptualized as making oneself seem superior to mating rivals. The goal is to render oneself as maximally desirable to potential mates, relative to mating rivals who are striving to achieve the same goal (Buss, 1988; Buss & Dedden, 1990). Thus, self-promotion is a common and effective intrasexual competition strategy that involves highlighting one’s strengths and desirable traits to potential mates.
Security, Development and Sustainability in Asia : A World Scientific Reference on Major Policy and Development Issues of 21st Century Asia

Zhiqun Zhu

In the third decade of the 21st century, Asia remains the global center of economics, politics and security. Asia is at the forefront of wealth creation, innovation, and sustainability. There is a growing demand for knowing more about Asia. This Major Reference Set (MRS) is designed to help general readers as well as specialists to have a good grasp of the latest developments in Asia in the key areas of geopolitics, geoeconomics, and sustainability.With 3 volumes, this MRS covers all major dimensions of Asia's political economy, regional security, and sustainable development. Volume 1 unpacks and examines geopolitics and foreign policy strategies of key Asian states in response to major security challenges associated with growing US-China rivalry. Volume 2 covers geoeconomics, entrepreneurship, regional integration, and development models. Trade, investment, innovation, and regional cooperation have been essential to Asia's continued success.Volume 3 offers a critical overview of environment, public health, and human security in Asia. Case studies are selected from countries that are at different stages of development and facing different environment and health challenges today.This interdisciplinary MRS is a fine example of international cooperation, with contributors who are all established scholars and experts in their fields of study hailing from different parts of Asia as well as North America and Europe. It is a must-have for anyone keen on understanding Asia's dynamic development and daunting challenges in the post-COVID world. -- back cover of books
Los Futuros de la Memoria en América Latina: Sujeto, Políticas y Epistemologías en Disputa

Fernando A. Blanco

Este libro señala y examina el cambio de paradigma experimentado en los últimos años por el campo de los estudios de memoria: un giro interseccional y epistemológico que desplaza espacial, temporal e ideológicamente la reflexión inmediata (testimonial) y mediata (transgeneracional) de la simbolización retrospectiva de los procesos represivos ocurridos durante las dictaduras cívico-militares latinoamericanas, proponiendo trabajar más allá de la ecuación víctima-victimario-testigo. El campo se revigoriza gracias a la re significación de la violencia no como un efecto sino como una fundación, un fenómeno de carácter estructural asociado al colapso del estado democrático en la región, acompañado en varios casos de la vuelta al poder de las derechas mediante “golpes blandos” sostenidos por la narrativa del “sentido común capitalista”. Esta segunda fase neoliberal se materializa en la violencia sistémica sostenida en contra de comunidades y actores (raciales, étnicos, sexuales, de género y de clase) que son desplazados, precarizados, perseguidos o diezmados por sus resistencias comunitarias al régimen económico que los marginaliza. Sus narrativas y prácticas emancipadoras constituyen el foco de este libro y la base del giro epistemológico e interseccional en los estudios de memoria que el libro aborda. -- back cover of book
Sustainable Public Management

Neil Boyd and Eric C. Martin

Sustainable Public Management explores key issues in public sector sustainable management that span from Nation/State to local government. It highlights state-of-the art articulations of public-private partnerships, public engagement, inter-organizational networks, sustainability policy, strategy, standard setting, and reporting. Sustainable management is an important topic across organizational forms in the private, not-for-profit, and public sectors because of the its practice is tied to some of the most pressing environmental and social problems that exist in the world. The public sector is especially important due to its scale and scope across the globe, the tangible impacts that public service delivery can make in resource efficiency and effectiveness, and in directly tackling critical sustainable development goals.

This book will be of great value to scholars, students, and policymakers interested in Public Administration and Management, Sustainable Management and Development.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Public Management Review.

Part I: National & State-Level

1. Public–private partnerships as instruments to achieve sustainability-related objectives: the state of the art and a research agenda

Alexander Pinz, Nahid Roudyani and Julia Thaler

2. Public engagement in governance for sustainability: a two-tier assessment approach and illustrations from New Zealand

Valentina Dinica

3. Understanding the puzzle of organizational sustainability: toward a conceptual framework of organizational social connectedness and sustainability

Alisa Moldavanova and Holly T. Goerdel

4. Aiming for a sustainable future: conceptualizing public open foresight

Lisa Schmidthuber and Melanie Wiener

5. Seeds of distrust: conflicts over sustainable development in a local fracking policy network in New York State

Junesoo Lee and Jeongyoon Lee

Part II: Local Government

6. Sustainability management, strategy and reform in local government

Eric S. Zeemering

7. All are not created equal: assessing local governments’ strategic approaches towards sustainability

Hyunjung Ji and Nicole Darnall

8. Sustainability standard setting as local government matter: an Italian experience

Francesca Pepe, Sergio Paternostro and Patrizio Monfardini

9. Sustainability reporting by local governments: a magic tool? Lessons on use and usefulness from European pioneers
Anthropocene Lullaby

K. A. Hays
Football Nation: The Playing Fields of German Culture, History, and Society

Bastian Heinsohn, Rebeccah Dawson, Oliver Knabe, and Alan McDougall

Over the past century, the impact of football on Germany has been manifold, influencing the arts, political debates, and even contributing to the construction of cultural memories and national narratives. Football Nation analyzes the game's fluid role in shaping and reflecting German society, and spans its focus on modern German history, from the Wilhelmine era to the early 21st century. Expounding on topics of gender, class, fandom, spectatorship, antisemitism, nationalism, and internationalism, a diverse group of interdisciplinary scholars offer a novel approach to understanding the many influences of football throughout its extensive history which until recently has only been available to a German-speaking readership. -- publisher
The Latin American Crisis and the New Authoritarian State

Manuel Larrabure

This book provides a fresh interpretation of the rise and fall of Latin America’s ‘left turn’, or movement towards more progressive economic or social policies. From a historical and comparative perspective, the book argues that Latin America is entering a new phase of authoritarian statism.

Based on over 10 years of research on Latin American political economy and social movements, including years of fieldwork in Chile, Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina, this book combines the stories of individuals and groups in particular situations with the macro-level political and economic trajectory of the region since the postwar period. The book draws on over 100 interviews with community activists, workers, union leaders, politicians, journalists, and NGOs, as well as archival work. In addition, the book uses up-to-date national and regional economic data, including both standard and heterodox development indicators. By engaging with key case studies including Argentina’s recovered enterprises, Chile’s student movement, Brazil’s free transit movement, and Venezuela’s popular economy, this book analyzes the complex relationship between "post-capitalist struggles" and the governance models of the "pink tide", the wave of left governments that began to sweep the region at the turn of the century.

This book will be of interest to researchers across politics, development, Latin American studies and social movement studies. The original data and analysis of the relationship between social movements and governments will also benefit policymakers and those working within the NGO sector. -- publisher
A Clubbable Man : Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in Honor of Greg Clingham

Anthony W. Lee, Greg Clingham, Gary Sojka, Nina Forsberg, Daniel Little, James Rice, and John Rickard

Samuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as "a most unclubbable man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociability of Greg Clingham, taking as its theme textual and social group formations. Here, Philip Smallwood examines the "mirrored minds" of Johnson and Shakespeare, while David Hopkins parses intersections of the general and particular in three key eighteenth-century figures. Aaron Hanlon draws parallels between instances of physical rambling and rhetorical strategies in Johnson's Rambler, while Cedric D. Reverand dissects the intertextual strands uniting Dryden and Pope. Contributors take up other topics significant to the field, including post-feminism, travel, and seismology. Whether discussing cultural exchange or textual reciprocities, each piece extends the theme, building on the trope of relationship to organize and express its findings. Rounding out this collection are tributes from Clingham's former students and colleagues, including original poetry-- Provided by publisher.
Kinetics of Enzyme Catalysis

Bruce A. Palfey and Rebecca L. Switzer

Kinetics of Enzyme Catalysis provides an introduction to the fundamentals of understanding an enzyme's catalytic mechanism and how activity is regulated, which is key to understanding biology and many diseases. Kinetics is at the core of enzymology, as it must be for the study of catalysts. Kinetics of Enzyme Catalysis examines simple kinetics and then applies those ideas to enzyme mechanisms, leading to rate equations for several key mechanisms and, as important, illustrating some key principles. A reader should therefore come away empowered with some mathematical tools allowing the analysis of catalytic cycles not discussed here and also with the understanding to predict some behaviors of enzyme kinetics without any math. Methods are discussed in some detail, and with them some considerations for avoiding pitfalls and collecting reliable data. In addition, introductions are presented to the important areas of studying inhibitors, of the origins of the catalytic power of enzymes, and the use of rapid-reaction technology.
Eudora Welty and Mystery : Hidden in Plain Sight

Harriet Pollack and Jacob Agner

Eudora Welty’s ingenious play with readers’ expectations made her a cunning writer, a paramount modernist, a short story artist of the first rank, and a remarkable literary innovator. In her signature puzzle-texts, she habitually engages with familiar genres and then delights readers with her transformations and nonfulfillment of conventions. Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden in Plain Sight reveals how often that play is with mystery, crime, and detective fiction genres, popular fiction forms often condescended to in literary studies, but unabashedly beloved by Welty throughout her lifetime.

Put another way, Welty often creates her stories’ secrets by both evoking and displacing crime fiction conventions. Instead of restoring order with a culminating reveal, her story-puzzles characteristically allow mystery to linger and thicken. The mystery pursued becomes mystery elsewhere. The essays in this collection shift attention from narratives, characters, and plots as they have previously been understood by unearthing enigmas hidden within those constructions.

Some of these new readings continue Welty’s investigation of hegemonic whiteness and southern narratives of race—outlining these in chalk as outright crime stories. Other essays show how Welty anticipated the regendering of the form now so characteristic of contemporary women mystery writers. Her tender and widely ranging personal correspondence with the hard-boiled American crime writer Ross Macdonald is also discussed. Together these essays make the case that across her career, Eudora Welty was arguably one of the genre’s greatest double agents, and, to apply the titles of Macdonald’s novels to her inventiveness with the form, she is its “underground woman,” its unexpected “sleeping beauty.” -- https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/E/Eudora-Welty-and-Mystery
SCREEN TIME : Photography and Video Art in the Internet Age

Richard Rinehart and Phillip Prodger

Published in conjunction with the exhibition ScreenTime: Photography and video art in the internet age, presented at the Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, January 18 - March 27, 2022. This catalog features a selection of leading international artists whose work engages with and critiques the role of media in contemporary society. The exhibition is cocurated by Richard Rinehart, director of the Samek Art Museum, and Phillip Prodger, executive director of Curatorial Exhibitions.
Economic Principles and Problems : a Pluralist Introduction

Geoffrey E. Schneider

964-page Principles of Economics book that is unique in taking up mainstream and heterodox perspectives. The book contrasts mainstream models with alternative theories developed by feminist, Marxian, Institutionalist, Austrian, and Post-Keynesian economics to provide the most comprehensive introduction to modern economic ideas. Through providing multiple views of markets and how they work, it leaves readers better able to understand and analyze the complex behaviors of consumers, firms, and government officials, as well as the likely impact of a variety of economic events and policies.

Most principles of economics textbooks cover only mainstream economics, ignoring rich heterodox ideas. They also lack material on the great economists, including the important ideas of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, John Maynard Keynes, and Friedrich Hayek. Mainstream books tend to neglect the kind of historical analysis that is crucial to understanding trends that help us predict the future. Moreover, they focus primarily on abstract models more than existing economic realities. This engaging book addresses these inadequacies. Including explicit coverage of mainstream economics and the major heterodox schools of economic thought—institutionalists, feminists, radical political economists, post-Keynesians, Austrians, and social economists—it allows the reader to choose which ideas they find most compelling in explaining modern economic realities.

Written in an engaging style and focused on real-world examples, this textbook brings economics to life. Multiple examples of how each economic model works, coupled with critical analysis of the assumptions behind them, enable students to develop a sophisticated understanding of the material. Digital supplements are also available for students and instructors. Economic Principles and Problems offers the most contemporary and complete package for any pluralist economics class. -- publisher