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Living in Death

Living in Death

Richard Rechtman, Lindsay Turner, Veena Das

Richard Rechtman

Translated by Lindsay Turner

Living in Death descends into the ordinary life of people who execute hundreds every day, the same way others go to the office. Bringing philosophical sophistication to the ordinary, the book constitutes both an anthropology of mass killers and a challenge to the conditions that make genocide possible.

ISBN: 9780823297863

Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity

Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity

Ina Merdjanova, Kristin Aune, Milica Bakic-Hayden, Maria Bucur, Ketevan Gurchiani, James Kapalo, Helena Kupari, Ina Merdjanova, Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, Eleni Sotiriou, Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir, Detelina Tocheva

Edited by Ina Merdjanova

Contributor(s): Kristin Aune, Milica Bakic-Hayden, Maria Bucur, Ketevan Gurchiani, James Kapalo, Helena Kupari, Ina Merdjanova, Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, Eleni Sotiriou, Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir and Detelina Tocheva

This volume engages women’s lifeworlds, practices, and experiences in relation to Orthodox Christianity in multiple, varied localities, discussing both contemporary and pre-1989 developments. It critically engages the pluralist and changing character of Orthodox forms of institutional and social life in relation to gender by using feminist epistemologies and drawing on original ethnographic research.

ISBN: 9780823298617

Orphaned Landscapes

Orphaned Landscapes

Patricia Spyer

Patricia Spyer

This book examines the proliferation of monumental Christian street art in a Muslim/Christian conflict to show how ephemeral phenomena are inherent to sociopolitical change.

ISBN: 9780823298693

The Book of Negroes

The Book of Negroes

Graham Russell Gao Hodges, Alan Edward Brown

Edited by Graham Russell Gao Hodges and Alan Edward Brown

Since publication of The Black Loyalist Directory in 1996, the primary component, The Book of Negroes, has become one of the most-cited of American Revolutionary primary sources....

ISBN: 9780823298808

Missions Begin with Blood

Missions Begin with Blood

Brandon Bayne

Brandon Bayne

While the idea that successful missions needed Indigenous revolts and missionary deaths seems counterintuitive, this book illustrates how it became a central logic of frontier colonization in Spanish...

ISBN: 9780823294190

The Body of the Cross

The Body of the Cross

Travis E. Ables

Travis E. Ables

The Body of the Cross is a study of holy victims in Western Christian history and how the uses of their bodies in Christian thought led to the idea of the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice....

ISBN: 9780823298006

Freedoms Gained and Lost

Freedoms Gained and Lost

Adam H. Domby, Simon Lewis, Bruce E. Baker, Adam H. Domby, Don H. Doyle, Brian K. Fennessy, Michael Fitzgerald, Hilary Green, Ethan Kytle, Simon Lewis, Holly Pinheiro, Sergio Pinto-Handler, Shannon Smith, Felicity Turner, Samuel Watts

Edited by Adam H. Domby and Simon Lewis

Contributor(s): Bruce E. Baker, Adam H. Domby, Don H. Doyle, Brian K. Fennessy, Michael Fitzgerald, Hilary Green, Ethan Kytle, Simon Lewis, Holly Pinheiro, Sergio Pinto-Handler, Shannon Smith, Felicity Turner and Samuel Watts

Reconstruction is one of the most complex, overlooked, and misunderstood periods of American history. The thirteen essays in this volume address the multiple struggles to make good on President Abraham...

ISBN: 9780823298167

King Al

Ron Howell

Ron Howell

The incredible story of the man and legend who has come to symbolize the continuing pursuit of justice for Blacks in the United StatesThrough the 1980s, the mainstream press...

ISBN: 9780823298877

Well Waiting Room

Well Waiting Room

Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer

Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer

A collection of poems that contemplate the bureaucracy of the mind through interior political cabinetsTaking its name from the banal, purgatorial space outside (but inside)...

ISBN: 9780823297771

The Corpse in the Kitchen

The Corpse in the Kitchen

Adam John Waterman

Adam John Waterman

Reassessing the archive of the Black Hawk War, The Corpse in the Kitchen explores relationships between the enclosure of Indigenous land, histories of resource extraction, and the literary...

ISBN: 9780823298778

Hour of the Cat

Hour of the Cat

Peter Quinn

Peter Quinn

It’s just another murder, one of the hundreds of simple homicides in 1939: A spinster nurse is killed in her apartment; a suspect is caught with the murder weapon and convicted. Fintan Dunne, the...

ISBN: 9780823297955

The Man Who Never Returned

The Man Who Never Returned

Peter Quinn

Peter Quinn

Peter Quinn’s The Man Who Never Returned is a noir-ish, stylized detective narrative set in 1950s New York. It follows Fintan, a retired detective turned private investigator who has been given...

ISBN: 9780823297979

Dry Bones

Peter Quinn

Peter Quinn

Dry Bones, the third novel of the Fintan Dunne series by Peter Quinn, follows Fintan, who works for the OSS, the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The novel is set during World...

ISBN: 9780823297931

Cold War Reckonings

Cold War Reckonings

Jini Kim Watson

Jini Kim Watson

Cold War Reckonings shows how the Cold War shaped culture and political power in the decolonizing world and gave rise, paradoxically, to authoritarian regimes of the so-called free world.

ISBN: 9780823294831

The Survival of Dulles

The Survival of Dulles

Michael M. Canaris, Michael M. Canaris, H. Ashley Hall, Elizabeth Johnson, C.S.J., Anne-Marie Kirmse, O.P., Rev. Joseph T. Lienhard, S.J., Bishop James Massa, Michael C. McCarthy, S.J., Peter Phan, Stephanie Puen, Patrick J. Ryan, S.J., Katherine Schmidt, Vincent L. Strand, S.J., Terrence W. Tilley, Mary Beth Yount

Edited by Michael M. Canaris

Contributor(s): Michael M. Canaris, H. Ashley Hall, Elizabeth Johnson, C.S.J., Anne-Marie Kirmse, O.P., Rev. Joseph T. Lienhard, S.J., Bishop James Massa, Michael C. McCarthy, S.J., Peter Phan, Stephanie Puen, Patrick J. Ryan, S.J., Katherine Schmidt, Vincent L. Strand, S.J., Terrence W. Tilley and Mary Beth Yount

This collection, marking the centenary of Avery Dulles’s birth, makes an entirely distinctive contribution to contemporary theological discourse as we approach the second century of the cardinal’s...

ISBN: 9780823294909

Palisades

Robert O. Binnewies

Robert O. Binnewies

How the famous and not-so-famous like-minded citizens all gave their time, expertise, and money to build a park legacy of incomparable benefitThe Palisades park and historic site...

ISBN: 9780823293698

Couch City

Harry Berger, Jill Frank, Ward Risvold, J. Benjamin Fuqua

Harry Berger

Edited by Ward Risvold and J. Benjamin Fuqua

Crowning six decades of literary, rhetorical, and historical scholarship, Harry Berger, Jr., offers readers another trenchant reading. Berger subverts the usual interpretations of Plato’s kalos...

ISBN: 9780823294237

On the Horizon of World Literature

On the Horizon of World Literature

Emily Sun

Emily Sun

On the Horizon of World Literature compares literary texts from asynchronous periods of incipient literary modernity in different parts of the world: Romantic England and Republican China....

ISBN: 9780823294794

Sunnyside Gardens

Sunnyside Gardens

Jeffrey A. Kroessler, Laura A. Heim

Jeffrey A. Kroessler

The first book devoted to this landmark of architecture, urban planning, and social engineeringSituated in the borough of Queens, New York, Sunnyside Gardens has been an icon of...

ISBN: 9780823293803

Banished Children of Eve

Banished Children of Eve

Peter Quinn

Peter Quinn

In the third bloody year of Civil War, the North imposes a military draft that sparks the most destructive riot in American history. Peter Quinn’s characters are drawn from across New York City’s classes and races. Their fates coalesce in the cataclysm of the Draft Riots.

ISBN: 9780823294084

Shell-Shocked

Bonnie Honig

Bonnie Honig

A biting, funny, up-to-the-minute collection of essays by a major political thinker that gets to the heart of what feminist criticism can do in the face of everyday politics.Stormy...

ISBN: 9780823293766

Eunice Hunton Carter

Eunice Hunton Carter

Marilyn Greenwald, Yun Li

Marilyn Greenwald and Yun Li

The fascinating biography of Eunice Hunton Carter, a social justice and civil rights trailblazer and the only woman prosecutor on the Luciano trial Eunice Hunton Carter rose to public...

ISBN: 9780823293735

Now What?

Rachel Weiss

Rachel Weiss

A profound and affecting meditation on art and revolution

ISBN: 9780823293926

Antiquity in Gotham

Antiquity in Gotham

Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis

Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis

The first detailed study of “Neo-Antique" architecture applies an archeological lens to the study of the NYC's structures Since the city's inception, New Yorkers have deliberately...

ISBN: 9780823293841

Form and Feeling

Form and Feeling

Antonio Sergio Bessa, Michael Asbury, Antonio Sergio Bessa, Claudia Calirman, Frederico Coelho, Simone Homem de Mello, Marcos Gonçalves, Jose Lira, Fernanda Lopes, Martin Mäntele, Adele Nelson, Eduardo Oliveira, Claudia Saldanha, Eduardo Sterzi, Luisa Valle

Edited by Antonio Sergio Bessa

Contributor(s): Michael Asbury, Antonio Sergio Bessa, Claudia Calirman, Frederico Coelho, Simone Homem de Mello, Marcos Gonçalves, Jose Lira, Fernanda Lopes, Martin Mäntele, Adele Nelson, Eduardo Oliveira, Claudia Saldanha, Eduardo Sterzi and Luisa Valle

A significant contribution on the development and aftermath of post–World War II Concretism in BrazilForm and Feeling features a collection of essays by noted scholars exploring...

ISBN: 9780823289110

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