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Networking Operatic Italy
A study of the networks of opera production and critical discourse that shaped Italian cultural identity during and after Unification. Opera’s role in shaping Italian identity has …
On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays
A beautifully written suite of personal essays on the value of not knowing. Moments of clarity are rare and fleeting; how can we become comfortable outside of them, in the more …
Complete Works
The complete surviving works of Epictetus, the most influential Stoic philosopher from antiquity. Some things are up to us and some are not. Epictetus was born into slavery around …
The Aeneid
This volume represents the most ambitious project of distinguished poet David Ferry’s life: a complete translation of Virgil’s Aeneid. Ferry has long been known as the foremost …
Practice, Power, and Forms of Life
Philosopher Terry Pinkard revisits Sartre’s later work, illuminating a pivotal stance in Sartre’s understanding of freedom and communal action. Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique of …
Fit Nation
How is it that Americans are more obsessed with exercise than ever, and yet also unhealthier? Fit Nation explains how we got here and imagines how we might create a more inclusive, …
Last Consolation Vanished
A unique and haunting first-person Holocaust account by Zalmen Gradowski, a Sonderkommando prisoner killed in Auschwitz.On October 7, 1944, a group of Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz …
Plotinus or the Simplicity of Vision
Since its original publication in France in 1963, Pierre Hadot's lively philosophical portrait of Plotinus remains the preeminent introduction to the man and his thought. Michael …
Democratize Work
An urgent and deeply resonant case for the power of workplace democracy to restore balance between economy and society.What happens to a society and a planet when capitalism …
Gladius: The World of the Roman Soldier
Gladius delivers a stunning ground-level recreation of what it was like to be a soldier in the fighting force that made the Roman Empire. Empire. The Roman army was the greatest …
Bette Davis Black and White
Bette Davis was not only one of Hollywood’s brightest stars, but also one of its most outspoken advocates on matters of race. In Bette Davis Black and White, Julia A. Stern …
Handbook of Quantitative Ecology
An essential guide to quantitative research methods in ecology and conservation biology, accessible for even the most math-averse student or professional.Quantitative research …