Books

How Skilled Welsh Workers and Managers Helped Build the American Steel Industry

How Capitalist Outsiders Willing to Accommodate the Dominant Economic Elite Often Defeat Anticapitalist Outsiders

Charts the Rise of the Barrios in the Venezuelan Imagination

Explores Writing as a Practice of Desire through an LGBTQ+ Lens

Centers Black Women’s Discourse and Sociopolitical Action from the Nation’s Founding through the Civil War and Beyond

How Competing Interests Mobilize and Shape Labor Laws and Reform

An Interdisciplinary History of Aviation and Aviation Symbolism in Postrevolutionary Mexico

Follows the Rise and Fall of Evo Morales and the Political and Economic Transformations of Bolivia

A Nuanced Study of the Complex Social Imaginary and Hegemony of Violence in Colombia

Shows the Cultural Resonance of Mammal Paleontology from an International Perspective

A Methodological Study of Going to the Movies as Cultural and Societal Practice

Concepts and Their Role in Knowledge offers scholarly analysis of key elements of Ayn Rand’s radically new approach to epistemology. The four essays, by contributors intimately familiar with this area of her work, discuss Rand’s theory of concepts—including its new account of abstraction and essence—and its central role in her epistemology; how that view leads to a distinctive conception of the justification of knowledge; her realist account of perceptual awareness and its role in the acquisition of knowledge; and finally, the implications of that theory for understanding the growth of scientific knowledge. The volume concludes with critical commentary on the essays by distinguished philosophers with differing philosophical viewpoints and the author’s responses to those commentaries.

Poems That Urgently Remind Us Love Keeps Us Alive

Poetry That Demands We Face the Lies We Tell Ourselves and Others

Explains the Nuts-and-Bolts of Collective Indoctrination and Political Integration Programs and the Resulting Cultural Changes