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Transplanting Modernity?

New Histories of Poverty, Development, and Environment

Edited By Thomas B. Robertson, Jenny Leigh Smith

Calls for an Honest Reckoning of the Successes, Failures, and Unanticipated Results of International Developments

The Secret Police and the Soviet System

New Archival Investigations

By Michael David-Fox

A Penetrating Exploration of the Soviet Secret Police Apparatus

Kaufmann’s

The Family That Built Pittsburgh’s Famed Department Store

By Marylynne Pitz, Laura Malt Schneiderman

TracesOne Family’s Outsized Influence on ItsCommunity and a Century of National Retail Trends in the Department Store Industry

Take Me to Stavanger

Poems

By Anzhelina Polonskaya

A Bilingual Collection of Poems for a Dispirited Society

OCTOBERS

Poems

By Sahar Muradi

Winner of the 2022 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry

Rock That Is Not a Rabbit, The

Poems

By Corey Marks

Meditative Poems That Ask, What If “We Change and Change / But Don’t Change Back?”

The Invention of Imagination

Aristotle, Geometry, and the Theory of the Psyche

By Justin Humphreys

A Provocative Examination of the Origin of Imagination

Small in Real Life

By Kelly Sather

Winner of the 2023 Drue Heinz Literature Prize

Now You Know It All

By Joanna Pearson

Winner of the 2021 Drue Heinz Literature Prize

It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories

By Ramona Reeves

Winner of the 2022 Drue Heinz Literature Prize

Auction

Poems

By Quan Barry

Poems about the Freedom That Arises When We Finally Let Go

Fields of Play

Sport, Race, and Memory in the Steel City

By Robert T. Hayashi

A Pittsburgh Sports History Centering Issues of Race and Economic Disparity

The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 13

The Correspondence, June 1872–September 1873

Edited By Michael D. Barton, Joseph D. Martin, Gregory Radick, Roy MacLeod

Letters Showing Tyndall’s Widespread Esteem and Increasing Social Status

Habitual Rhetoric

Digital Writing before Digital Technology

By Alex Mueller

A Corrective to the Pervasive Belief That Digital Writing Practices are Entirely New

Youghiogheny

Appalachian River, Revised Edition

By Tim Palmer

The Fortieth Anniversary Edition of the Classic Exploration of the Youghiogheny River,Updated with a New Introduction and Epilogue