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  • Look Round for Poetry

    Untimely Romanticisms

    by Brian McGrath ...
    Series series Lit Z
    Poetry is dead. Poetry is all around us. Both are trite truisms that this book exploits and challenges.In his 1798 Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth anticipates that readers accustomed to the poetic norms of the day might not recognize his experiments as poems and might signal their awkward confusion upon opening the book by looking round for poetry, as if seeking it elsewhere. ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Holocaust and Hope

    Literature, Testimony, Media

    by Geoffrey Hartman ...
    Series series Lit Z
    Holocaust and Hope shows one of our preeminent critics grappling with a subject to which he had returned for decades: literary, cultural, political, and historiographical implications of the Holocaust and its aftermath in Europe and America. In his last planned book, Geoffrey Hartman confronts contradictions that pose a challenge for our present and future. The passing of Holocaust survivors and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Aaron Burr

    More Than a Villain

    by Brian McGrath, Brian S. McGrath ...
    Series series Social Studies: Informational Text
    In the high-interest, nonfiction text Aaron Burr, readers will examine the life of Aaron Burr and his political rivalry with Alexander Hamilton. Through the use of dynamic primary sources like maps and letters, middle school students will be engaged as they read about history and build their literacy skills. Supporting current social studies standards, this full-color text includes intriguing ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Community Development

    Perspectives from Around the Globe

    Edited by Sue Kenny, Brian McGrath, Rhonda Phillips ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Community Development explores community development theory and practice across the world. The book provides perspectives about community development as an interactive, relevant and sometimes contradictory way to address issues impacting the human condition. It promotes better understanding of the complexities and challenges in identifying, designing, implementing and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design

    Linking Theory and Practice for Sustainable Cities

    Edited by S.T.A. Pickett, M.L. Cadenasso, Brian McGrath ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The contributors to this volume propose strategies of urgent and vital importance that aim to make today’s urban environments more resilient. Resilience, the ability of complex systems to adapt to changing conditions, is a key frontier in ecological research and is especially relevant in creative urban design, as urban areas exemplify complex systems. With something approaching half of the world’s ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

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    by Hannah Arendt ...
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  • The Use and Abuse of Literature

    by Marjorie Garber ...
    As defining as Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism, Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind, and Dinesh D’Souza’s Illiberal Education were to the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, respectively, Marjorie Garber’s The Use and Abuse of Literature is to our times.Even as the decline of the reading of literature, as argued by the National Endowment for the Arts, proceeds in our culture, Garber ... Read more

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  • The Visionaries

    Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times

    by Wolfram Eilenberger ...
    Translated by Shaun Whiteside ...
    A soaring intellectual narrative starring the radical, brilliant, and provocative philosophers Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Ayn Rand by the critically acclaimed author of Time of the Magicians, Wolfram EilenbergerThe period from 1933 to 1943 was one of the darkest and most chaotic in human history, as the Second World War unfolded with unthinkable cruelty. It was also a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Muses on Their Lunch Hour

    by Marjorie Garber ...
    "Witty, shrewd, and imaginative essays on interdisciplinary topics . . . from Shakespeare to psychoanalysis, and the practice of higher education today." — Publishers WeeklyAs a break from their ordained labors, what might the Muses do on their lunch hour today? This collection of essays uses these figures of ancient legend to explore such modern-day topics as the curious return of myth and ritual ... Read more

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  • The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics

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    by Mark Lilla ...
    “A skilled exploration” of why 6 notable 20th-century philosophers—from Martin Heidegger to Michel Foucault—succumbed to “a narcissistic embrace of totalitarian politics” (The Washington Post).European history of the past century is full of examples of philosophers, writers, and scholars who supported or excused the worst tyrannies of the age. How was this possible? How could intellectuals whose ... Read more

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  • Echoes of Desire

    English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses

    by Heather Dubrow ...
    Echoes of Desire variously invokes and interrogates a number of historicist and feminist premises about Tudor and Stuart literature by examining the connections between the anti-Petrarchan tradition and mainstream Petrarchan poetry. It also addresses some of the broader implications of contemporary critical methodologies. Heather Dubrow offers an alternative to the two predominant models used in ... Read more

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  • Language and Silence

    Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman

    by George Steiner ...
    The evolution and manipulation of language from the celebrated author of After Babel. "A keenly discriminating literary mind at work on what it loves" ( The New York Times Book Review).Language and Silence is a book about language—and politics, meaning, silence, and the future of literature. Originally published between 1958 and 1966, the essays that make up this collection ponder whether we have ... Read more

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