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Say It Plain is a vivid, moving portrait of how black Americans have sounded the charge against injustice, exhorting the country to live up to its democratic principles. In "full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul" (Minneapolis Star Tribune), this unique anthology collects the ... More

Say it Plain, the celebrated companion to the American RadioWorks® documentary which documented the great tradition of African American political speech in the twentieth century, collected the transcribed speeches of the twentieth century's leading African American cultural, literary, and political ... More

The scientific discovery that chaotic systems embody deep structures of order is one of such wide-ranging implications that it has attracted attention across a spectrum of disciplines, including the humanities. In this volume, fourteen theorists explore the significance for literary and cultural st... More

"How do we think?" N. Katherine Hayles poses this question at the beginning of this bracing exploration of the idea that we think through, with, and alongside media. As the age of print passes and new technologies appear every day, this proposition has become far more complicated, particularly for... More

N. Katherine Hayles is known for breaking new ground at the intersection of the sciences and the humanities. In Unthought, she once again bridges disciplines by revealing how we think without thinking—how we use cognitive processes that are inaccessible to consciousness yet necessary for it to funct... More

Hayles (English, UCLA) investigates the fate of embodiment in an information age. Ranging widely across the history of technology and culture, she relates three interwoven stories: how information came to be conceptualized as an entity separate from material forms; the cultural and technological con... More

From the central concept of the field—which depicts the world as a mutually interactive whole, with each part connected to every other part by an underlying field— have come models as diverse as quantum mathematics and Saussure’s theory of language. In The Cosmic Web, N. Katherine Hayles seeks to es... More

N. Katherine Hayles here investigates parallels between contemporary literature and critical theory and the science of chaos. She finds in both scientific and literary discourse new interpretations of chaos, which is seen no longer as disorder but as a locus of maximum information and complexity. Sh... More

Since Gutenberg’s time, every aspect of print has gradually changed. But the advent of computational media has exponentially increased the pace, transforming how books are composed, designed, edited, typeset, distributed, sold, and read. N. Katherine Hayles traces the emergence of what she identifie... More

The credal affirmation, 'he descended to the dead', has attracted a plethora of views over the centuries and many Christians today struggle to explain the meaning of these words. This book explores various interpretations of the doctrine of Christ's descent to the dead, both within particular histor... More

For the past few hundred years, Western cultures have relied on print. When writing was accomplished by a quill pen, inkpot, and paper, it was easy to imagine that writing was nothing more than a means by which writers could transfer their thoughts to readers. The proliferation of technical media ... More

Published to mark the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, After the Fall is a landmark oral history drawn from the celebrated collection of 9/11 interviews at Columbia University.Within days of 9/11, Columbia's Oral History Research Office deployed interviewers across the... More

This first biography of John Erskine views him in the larger contexts of the mass culture and expanded commercialism that helped propel his fame. It also relates a life narrative that demonstrates perils of academic celebrity along a conceptual path from public intellectual to pop icon.... More

This book describes the two excursions accessed from the Monterrey International Airport on the north side of Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. Excellent exposures of salt diapirs and flanking strata in La Popa basin, northeastern Mexico, contain world-class examples of salt–sediment interaction that p... More

Der aufstrebende Hockeystar Jamie Babcock ist bereit für die wichtigste Aktion seines Lebens – aber diesmal nicht auf dem Eis. Mit der Tochter seines Mannschaftskameraden auszugehen, könnte riskanter sein, als gegen einen der Rivalen von Portland Storm anzutreten. Aber die Zeit wird knapp. Er muss h... More

Il capitano della squadra dei Portland Storm Eric "Zee" Zellinger sa come fare il suo lavoro, ma portare la sua squadra, un tempo d'élite, alla vittoria sta diventando una battaglia persa. Non può distrarsi ora - non con la sua carriera in gioco. Ma quando la sorella minore del suo migliore amico gl... More

Au sujet d’Amours tempêtes Éric « Zee » Zellinger, le capitaine des Storms de Portland, est connu et reconnu pour sa capacité à obtenir des résultats, mais mener son équipe vers la victoire devient un défi de plus en plus insurmontable. Il ne peut pas se permettre la moindre distraction, pas main... More

Dopo esser stato messo da parte per troppo tempo a causa degli infortuni, il giocatore dei Portland Storm Brenden “Soupy” Campbell è pronto a portare la sua carriera al livello successivo e rendere permanente la sua posizione nella squadra. Dopo aver incontrato la nuova bella assistente del direttor... More

L’astro nascente dell’hockey, Jamie Babcock è pronto ad affrontare la prova più importante—e stavolta non sul ghiaccio. Uscire con la figlia del suo compagno di squadra potrebbe essere più rischioso di un testa a testa con uno dei suoi avversari. Ma il tempo sta finendo—è ora o mai più. La diploman... More

Rediscover Woven Shibori In this update of the classic Woven Shibori, master weaver Catharine Ellis teaches weavers of all skill levels how to create beautiful dyed woven cloth, using environmentally friendly natural dyes. Shibori is a traditional Japanese technique, in which a piece of cloth is sha... More

This book tells three inter-related stories that radically alter our perspective on plainchant reform at the turn of the twentieth century and highlight the value of liturgical music history to our understanding of French government anticlericalism. It offers at once a new history of the rise of the... More

Der Mannschaftskapitän von Portland Storm, Eric "Zee" Zellinger, weiß für gewöhnlich, was zu tun ist. Aber sein einstiges Elite-Team zum Sieg zu führen, wird schnell ein aussichtslos erscheinender Kampf. Er darf seine Konzentration jetzt nicht verlieren - nicht wenn seine Karriere auf dem Spiel steh... More

Band 2 der emotionsgeladenen Portland Storm-Reihe von USA Today-Bestsellerautorin Catherine Gayle. Nachdem er durch seine Verletzungen viel zu lange ausgebremst wurde, ist Portland Storm-Spieler Brenden „Soupy“ Campbell bereit, die nächste Stufe seiner Karriereleiter zu erklimmen und seine neue Pos... More

Towns and communities such as Springerville, Eagar, Alpine, Nutrioso, Vernon, Greer, McNary, and Maverick of Apache County's White Mountains hold fascinating histories of outlaws and Arizona Rangers; Texas cattlemen and Mormon farmers; and New Mexico Hispanics and forest service men. Aldo Leopold wa... More

The U.S.-USSR Agreement on Cooperation in the Fields of Science and Technology (the S&T Agreement), a major program of scientific and technical cooperation with the Soviet Union, brought about a broadening of the scope of cooperation and an increase in the number of scientists participating in such ... More