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banana [ ]

…family, and personal memories. At the heart of the book is a long poem that traces the history of bananas in Latin America using only found text from sources such…

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Crystal and Arabesque

…American modernists committed to social reform used ornament in new ways to engage the media and audiences of mass society.| Jonathan Massey|| Architecture / Individual Architects & Firms / Monographs…

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The Government of Nature

…of Nature, Afaa Michael Weaver explores the trauma of his childhood—including sexual abuse—using a “cartography and thematic structure drawn from Chinese spiritualism.” Weaver is a practitioner of Daoism, and this…

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Singing The City

|9780822957928|The Bonds Of Home In An Industrial Landscape| Singing the City is an eloquent tribute to a way of life largely disappearing in America, using Pittsburgh as a lens. Graham…

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Exile and Identity

|9780822941859|Polish Women in the Soviet Union during World War II| Using firsthand, personal accounts, and focusing on the experiences of women, Katherine R. Jolluck relates and examines the experiences of…

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