Promotions - Title Listings - "Technical and Reference, March 4, 2013"

Here is an engaging account of today's contemporary art world that features original articles by leading international art historians, critics, curators, and artists, introducing varied perspectives on the most important debates and discussions happening around the world.

Rich with perceptive readings of unexpected texts, this ambitious book is an important intervention in the study of race.

In this two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook on the deepest bond humans can have.

In this book, David Pedersen charts El Salvador's change alongside American deindustrialization, viewing the Salvadoran migrant work abilities used in new low-wage American service jobs as a kind of primary export.

Black Against Empire is the first comprehensive overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party.

The writings and speeches presented in this scholarly edition illuminate Abraham Lincoln as a political thinker in the context of his own time and political situation.

In this book Michael Scott employs the full range of literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence in order to demonstrate the many different ways in which spatial analysis can illuminate our understanding of Greek and Roman society and the ways in which these societies thought of, and interacted with, the spaces they occupied and created.

Scholars, amateur historians and actors have shaped theatre history in different ways at different times and in different places. This Companion offers students and general readers a series of accessible and engaging essays on the key aspects of studying and writing theatre history.

Combining readings of traditional poems with fresh examples, Judith Ryan conveys the rich rewards that come with reading German poetry.

In this introduction, William Demastes provides an accessible overview of Tom Stoppard's life and work, exploring all the complexity and variety that makes his drama so unique.

When looking at how trauma is represented in literature and the arts, we tend to focus on the weight of the past. In this book, Amir Eshel suggests that this retrospective gaze has trapped us in a search for reason in the madness of the twentieth century's catastrophes at the expense of literature's prospective vision.

Roger D. Woodard examines the figure of the returning warrior as depicted in the myths of several ancient and medieval Indo-European cultures.

Like almost all the Hellenistic historians, Timaeus of Tauromenium's work survives only in fragments. Beyond an up-to-date treatment of Timaeus, this book also shows that both the nature of the evidence and modern assumptions about historical writing in the Hellenistic period have skewed our treatment and judgment of lost historians.

A practical tool for all those who help adolescents, the Clinical Handbook of Adolescent Addiction is one response to the challenge of meeting the mental health needs and behavior-related problems of addicted teenagers.

Written by leading scholars in opera studies today, this Companion offers a wide-ranging guide to the rapidly expanding field of opera and new ways to think about this rich and intriguing art form.

This volume offers an introduction in which the authors help the readers to gain a deeper understanding both of the Eudemian Ethics and of its relation to the Nicomachean Ethics and to Aristotle's ethical thought as a whole.

This volume presents the composite character of the Cistercian Order in its unity and diversity, detailing the white monks' history from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Kathleen Galotti's accessible writing style and use of colorful real-life examples bring the full relevance of cognitive psychology into focus for students, and equips them to understand how theoretical principles apply to real-world problems and the complex functions of the human brain.

Kant of Moral Autonomy brings together a distinguished group of scholars who explore the following questions: what is Kant's conception of autonomy? What is its history and its influence on contemporary conceptions? And what is its moral significance?

Leibniz states that 'metaphysics is natural theology' and this is especially true of his metaphysics of modality. In this book, Michael V. Griffin examines the deep connection between the two and the philosophical consequences which follow it.

This book covers public-key cryptography, describing in depth all major public-key cryptosystems in current use, including ElGamal, RSA, Elliptic Curve, and digital signature schemes.

Aristotle's ethics are the most important in the history of Western philosophy, but little has been said about the reception of his ethics by his many successors. This present volume offers thirteen newly commissioned essays covering figures and periods from the ancient world and extending as far as Kant and the twentieth century.

In Studying Human Behavior, Helen E. Longino enters into the complexities of human behavioral research, focusing on sexual behavior and aggression, and asks what can be known about human behavior through empirical investigation.

Here is a concise and accessible text that guides students through each component of the research process.

In this text, the authors provide innovative strategies and tools for succeeding after college with an undergraduate degree in psychology. Topics covered include: understanding what employers want and don't want, coping with personal life changes, becoming a valued employee, and more.

In this book, Professor E. Scott Adler argues that the willingness of many voters to hold elected officials accountable for societal conditions is central to appreciating why Congress responds to problems in society despite the many reasons mustered for why it cannot.

This is the first extended statement of a republican theory of democracy. It gives a fresh account of the rationale of democracy and the institutions that democracy requires.

In this volume, leading international experts explore the frontiers of astrobiology, investigating the latest research questions that will fascinate a wide interdisciplinary audience at all levels.

Balancing concise mathematical analysis with the real-world examples and practical applications that inspire students, this text provides a clear and approachable introduction to the physics of waves.

This book brings an interdisciplinary team of 58 international researchers to share their novel approaches, concepts, theories, and knowledge on land use and the carbon cycle.

Developed by the Education Development Center and Bank Street College of Education, this professional development program shows general and special education teachers how to collaborate to provide a high quality, standards-based mathematics education to all students, including those with disabilities.

From the Arctic Ocean and ice sheets of Greenland, to the glaciers of the Andes and Himalayas, The White Planet takes readers on a scientific journey through the shrinking world of ice and snow to tell the story of the expeditions and discoveries that have transformed our understanding of global climate.

This collection of essays explores the impact that nationalism, capitalism, and socialism had on economics during the first half of the twentieth century.

Readable and practical, this workbook provides technical assistance and concrete advice for both novice and experienced case writers.

This book provides a fresh and unapologetically Marxist approach to the history of one of the formative periods of Western civilization, which saw the invention of politics, the spread of Greek culture over most of the Mediterranean, the invention of literacy, epic, lyric, highly influential architecture, sculpture and painting.

Combining the latest scientific findings with real-life stories and experiences, Susan Brink examines critical dimensions of newborn development such as eating and nutrition, bonding and attachment, sleep patterns, sensory development, pain and pleasure, and the creation of foundations for future advancement.

Insurance is an extraordinary useful tool to manage risk. This book looks at the behavior of individuals at risk, insurance industry decision makers, and policymakers at the local, state, and federal level involved in the selling, buying, and regulating of insurance.

This is a concise guide that offers a step-by-step approach to the strategic use of alternative media by both the marketing and advertising professions.

This is the first scholarly book on the history of the Solvay company, which was one of the earliest chemical multinationals and today is among the world's twenty largest chemical companies.

This engaging and comprehensive introduction to the study of basic statistics for Criminal Justice and Criminology programs shows how to calculate a variety of descriptive and inferential statistics, recognize which statistics are appropriate for particular data analysis situations, and perform hypothesis tests using inferential statistics.

This textbook provides an introduction into patterns of past and present (un)sustainable development and into the emergence of the notion of sustainable development.

This writing guide introduces students to the variety of writing projects that sociologists undertake, while also providing instruction on grammar and composition.