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Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Second Edition
In Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw present a series of guidelines, suggestions, and practical advice for creating useful …
Rhetoric of Fiction
The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it …
Physiologus
One of the most popular and widely read books of the Middle Ages, Physiologus contains allegories of beasts, stones, and trees both real and imaginary, infused by their anonymous …
Balance of Power
Central banks now stand between societies and collapse, but are they still democratic?Two decades of financial crises have dramatically expanded central banks powers. In 2008, and …
On Revision
A trusted editor turns his attention to the most important part of writing: revision.So you ve just finished writing something? Congratulations! Now revise it. Because revision is …
Against Marriage
In seventeenth-century France, aristocratic women were valued by their families as commodities to be married off in exchange for money, social advantage, or military alliance. Once …
Becoming an Ex
The experience of becoming an ex is common to most people in modern society. Unlike individuals in earlier cultures who usually spent their entire lives in one marriage, one …
Occultism, Witchcraft, and Cultural Fashions
In the period domoninated by the triumphs of scientific rationalism, how do we account for the extraordinary success of such occult movements as astrology or the revival of …
James Joyce and the Irish Revolution
A provocative history of Ulysses and the Easter Rising as harbingers of decolonization. When revolutionaries seized Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising, they looked back to …
Transmutations of Chymistry
This book reevaluates the changes to chymistry that took place from 1660 to 1730 through a close study of the chymist Wilhelm Homberg (1653-1715) and the changing fortunes of his …
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
No part of the United States was more resistant to the civil rights movement and its pursuit of racial equality than Mississippi. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle explores the civil …