Books

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Most Adaptable to Change

Most Adaptable to Change

Evolution and Religion in Global Popular Media

How Multimedia Influenced Relationships between Evolutionary Studies and Religion in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

The Volcano and After

The Volcano and After

Selected and New Poems 2002-2019
Alicia Suskin Ostriker’s passionate voice has long been acknowledged as a vital force in American poetry. From urgent spiritual quest to biting political satire, from elegy to comedy, from celebration of the city street and the world “as a paradise might be / if we had eyes to see,” to ...
The Matter of Empire

The Matter of Empire

Metaphysics and Mining in Colonial Peru

This book examines the philosophical principles invoked by apologists of the Spanish empire that laid the foundations for the exploitation of the Andean region between 1520 and 1640. Orlando Bentancor ties the colonizers’ attempts to justify the abuses wrought on the environment and the indigenous population to their larger ideology concerning mining, science, and the empire’s rightful place in the global sphere. To Bentancor, their presuppositions were a major turning point for colonial expansion and paved the way to global mercantilism.

William Whewell

William Whewell

Victorian Polymath

Reexamines the Work and Legacy of One of the Most Important Figures of the Victorian Era

Obligations to the Wounded

Obligations to the Wounded

Winner of the 2024 Drue Heinz Literature Prize

Absent Here

Absent Here

Poems

Winner of the 2023 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry

Purchase

Purchase

Poems

Poems That Breathe through Grief to Find Comfort in the Natural World

William Bartram’s Visual Wonders

William Bartram’s Visual Wonders

The Drawings of an American Naturalist

Positions Bartram’s Illustrations as Central to His Understanding of the Natural World

The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature

The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature

The First Thorough Examination of the Enduring Significance of Plants in Spanish American Literature and Culture

Pittsburgh Rising

Pittsburgh Rising

From Frontier Town to Steel City, 1750-1920

Traces the Arc of Pittsburgh’s Rise from Frontier Outpost to Dynamic Industrial Region

Small in Real Life

Small in Real Life

Winner of the 2023 Drue Heinz Literature Prize

The Making of Dissidents

The Making of Dissidents

Hungary’s Democratic Opposition and its Western Friends, 1973-1998

Offers New Perspectives on Local and Western Opposition to State Socialism and the Cold War Order

Querida

Querida

Poems

Winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

Dragstripping

Dragstripping

Poems

Rescripting the Ecstatic in the Midst of Violence

2000 Blacks

2000 Blacks

Poems

Winner of the 2024 Cave Canem Poetry Prize

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