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How the Circulation of Tropical Bodies Changed Victorian Understandings of Race, Gender, Disease, and Climate

A Nineteenth-Century Russian Social Novel that Explores the World of the St. Petersburg Literati and Their Search for Meaning

How Five Celebrity Scientists Used the Art of Public Speech to Advocate for Science as a Powerful Agent for Cultural Change

The First Environmental History of Krakow, Covering More than a Thousand Years of History

Considers the Long History of Political Amnesty and Restitution in Brazil

Winner of the 2021 Drue Heinz Literature Prize

The Definitive Biography of the Velvet Revolution Leader Who Overthrew Communism and Created a Democratic Czechoslovakia

The Drue Heinz Literature Prize was established in 1980 to encourage and support the writing and reading of short fiction, and first awarded in 1981, to David Bosworth for his collection The Death of Descartes. Over the past forty years judges such as Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Joan Didion, ...

Winner of the 2020 Drue Heinz Literature Prize

Reframes Resistance to Vaccines as a Crisis of Public Trust Rather than a War on Science

An Investigation into What Makes New Political Parties Succeed—Or Fail

A Unique Comparative Study of Urban Development in Three Post-Nazi German Cities Rebuilt under Three Competing Cold War Regime Ideologies

An Engaging Must-Read History of Public Libraries in Pennsylvania from 1731 through 1945

A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Ethical, Methodological, and Representational Questions in Feminist Rhetorical Research

Winner of the 2020 Cave Canem Poetry Prize