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Spatial Theories for the Americas

Spatial Theories for the Americas

Counterweights to Five Centuries of Eurocentrism

Confronts the Insufficiencies of Canonical Architectural Texts

From the Steel City to the White City

From the Steel City to the White City

Western Pennsylvania and the World’s Columbian Exposition

How Pittsburgh Positioned Itself as a Center of Culture and Innovation at the Turn of the Century

Andy Warhol’s Mother

Andy Warhol’s Mother

The Woman Behind the Artist

The First Comprehensive Biography of Julia Warhola

Sharing Spaces

Sharing Spaces

Technology, Mediation, and Human-Animal Relationships

Considers the Entangled Human-Animal Relationship of a Complex Multispecies World

Creatures of Reason

Creatures of Reason

John Herschel and the Invention of Science

Explores the Early Life and Career of a Figure Central to the Development of Modern Scientific Practice

Still City

Still City

Poems

First-Hand and Documentary Poetic Witness to the War in Ukraine

Imaginative Possibilities

Imaginative Possibilities

Conversations with Twenty-First-Century Latinx Writers

Interviews That Speak to New Trends and Developments in Latinx Literature

Black Urban History at the Crossroads

Black Urban History at the Crossroads

Race and Place in the American City

Navigates the Complicated History of the City as Both Site of Oppression and Space for Self-Determination

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

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