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Winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

Winner of the 2023 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry

Rescripting the Ecstatic in the Midst of Violence

Winner of the 2024 Drue Heinz Literature Prize

A Hopeful Approach to the Problem of Literacy Among Communities in Need

Sanctuary against the Perpetual Demands of the Daily Grind

A Deeply Felt, Lyric Adventure across the Globe

A Comprehensive History Placing Forbes and His Campaign during the Seven Years' War within the Context of the Eighteenth Century British Empire

Poems That Urgently Remind Us Love Keeps Us Alive

Concepts and Their Role in Knowledge offers scholarly analysis of key elements of Ayn Rand's radically new approach to epistemology. The four essays, by contributors intimately familiar with this area of her work, discuss Rand's theory of concepts--including its new account of abstraction and essence--and its central role in her epistemology; how that view leads to a distinctive conception of the justification of knowledge; her realist account of perceptual awareness and its role in the acquisition of knowledge; and finally, the implications of that theory for understanding the growth of scientific knowledge. The volume concludes with critical commentary on the essays by distinguished philosophers with differing philosophical viewpoints and the author's responses to those commentaries.

A Radically Different History of AI Spanning Four Centuries of Research on Human Intelligence and Behavior

How Skilled Welsh Workers and Managers Helped Build the American Steel Industry

The Complete Story of the Worst Air Pollution Disaster in US History

A collection of the travel writings of John Heckewelder, who recorded much of the history of the western frontier in the upper Ohio Valley and the eastern Great Lakes.

The Steel Workers remains a readable and timeless account of labor conditions in the early years of the steel industry. An introduction by the noted historian Roy Lubove places the book in political and historical context.

Orbit connects the intimate with what is farthest from us, mixing what we can imagine with what is daily and near. Landscapes stretch from stable and fulfilling domestic interiors to the destiny of our sun as an exploding red giant.

David Hernandez's Dear, Sincerely is his most intimate and dynamic collection to date, bringing the reader into poems that are simultaneously personal and universal, and sometimes political. With his characteristic dreamlike imagery, inventive rhythms, and biting wit, Hernandez's voice reaches toward us with an accessible profundity. Dear, Sincerely is an imaginative book that explores the Self, the collective We, the cosmos, and the murky division that separates one from the other.

Animal Eye employs pastoral motifs to engage a discourse on life and love, as Coal Hill Review states "It is as if a scientist is at work in the basement of the museum of natural history, building a diorama of an entire ecosystem via words. She seems not only interested in using the natural world as a metaphoric lens in her poems but is set on building them item by item into natural worlds themselves." Winner of the 2013 Rilke Prize from the University of North Texas Voted one of the five best poetry collections for 2012 by Publishers Weekly

From the 1870s, the sugar industry began to swallow up rural communities and destroy the traditional land tenure system in Cuba, as great sugar estates--the "latifundia," dominated the economy. Perez chronicles the resistance to these powerful landholders, and the violence propagated against them.

A compelling collection by one of the pioneers of revisionist approaches to the history of literacy in North America and Europe, "The Labyrinths of Literacy" offers original and controversial views on the relation of literacy to society, leading the way for scholars and citizens who are willing to question the importance and function of literacy in the development of society today.

A fascinating look at life during pioneer times in western Pennsylvania. Describes the hardship, danger and drudgery of day-to-day life on the frontier. Topics include cabin raising, crop harvests, tanning, weaving, disease, religion, and superstition. Also follows the progression from pioneer life to industrial society.

In the middle of the eighteenth century, English literature, composition, and rhetoric were introduced almost simultaneously into colleges throughout the British cultural provinces. Professorships of rhetoric and belles lettres were established just as print was expanding the reading public and efforts were being made to standardize educated taste and usage. The provinces saw English studies as a means to upward social mobility through cultural assimilation.In the educational centers of England, however, the introduction of English represented a literacy crisis brought on by provincial institutions that had failed to maintain classical texts and learned languages. In The Formation of College English, Thomas P. Miller examines the teaching of introductory English courses in the broadly based colleges rather than as an object of scholarship as taught in the elite institutions.The need to assimilate broad classes of readers shaped how these subjects were first taught in colleges in Ireland, Scotland, America, and academies formed by dissenters forced out of Oxford and Cambridge during the Restoration. This modern equation of English studies with literary studies marked a historical departure from rhetoric's connection to moral philosophy. Within the civic humanist tradition, rhetoric and moral philosophy shared a concern for political discourse and popular values. Adam Smith and other professors of moral philosophy were among the first to teach courses on rhetoric and belles lettres that advanced two basic trends: a belletristic tendency to conflate ethics and aesthetics as matters of personal sentiment, and the scientistic project of applying Newtonian method to the human psyche andbody politic to establish "the science of man".Today, rhetoric and composition have become reestablished in the humanities in American colleges. English studies are being broadly transformed by work with cultural studies, community literacies, and political controversie

"The linkage of blood and blood; the hummingbird, symbol of all that is luminous, swift and ephemeral; the lights sure touch-these are characteristic of Carol Muske's art." "--New York Times Book Review"

Tells of the founding and subsequent history of Ephrata, a mystical religious community that flourished in eastern Pennsylvania in the mid-eighteenth century. Its leader, Conrad Beissel, a German Pietist who came to America in 1720 seeking spiritual peace and solitude. Settled in Lancaster County, his talents and charisma attracted other German settlers who shared his vision of a community built in the image of apostolic Christianity.

This definitive biography of Ida Tarbell, on of America's great journalists, is highly readably and widely acclaimed.

"Ostriker faces the tests that God and the world present and comes away with an affirmative vision; this is as unusual as it is welcome in these times, when poetry too often stops short of both." --Virginia Quarterly Review

A rare combination of documented fact and good storytelling," Ill-Starred General" is the biography of a much maligned man from one of history's most vital eras. The career of Edward Braddock began during the court intrigues of Queen Anne and George I, gained momentum in continental military campaigns in the early 1750s, and ended abruptly in the rout of his American army near present-day Pittsburgh in 1755. This highly acclaimed biography reveals the man--and the politics--behind his defeat, one of the major setbacks to British imperial power in the American colonies.

In an insightful assessment of the study and teaching of writing against the larger theoretical, political, and technological upheavals of the past thirty years, "Fragments of Rationality" questions why composition studies has been less affected by postmodern theory than other humanities and social science disciplines.

Examines the 1985 confrontation between police and members of the black counterculture group MOVE, which ended in the destruction of sixty-one homes and the death of eleven residents--five of them children. Sheds light on relevant issues such as negotiating with "irrational" adversaries and problems of perception and misperception when different cultures clash.