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Sonnets for Michelangelo – A Bilingual Edition
The most published and lauded woman writer of early sixteenth-century Italy, Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547) in effect defined what was the "acceptable" face of female authorship for …
Talking about Race – Community Dialogues and the Politics of Difference
It is a perennial question: how should Americans deal with racial and ethnic diversity? More than 400 communities across the country have attempted to answer it by organizing …
SamulNori – Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture
In 1978, four musicians crowded into a cramped basement theater in downtown Seoul, where they, for the first time, brought the rural percussive art of p'ungmul to a burgeoning …
The Lost Paradise – Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa
For more than a century, urban North Africans have sought to protect and revive Andalusi music, a prestigious Arabic-language performance tradition said to originate in the “lost …
Seasons in Hippoland
Victoriana is a country ruled by an Emperor-for-Life who is dying from an illness not officially acknowledged in a land where truth and facts are decided by the Emperor. The elite …
When the Press Fails – Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina
A sobering look at the intimate relationship between political power and the news media is presented in this examination that is both an indictment of official spin and an urgent …
Topics in Geometric Group Theory
In this book, Pierre de la Harpe provides a concise and engaging introduction to geometric group theory, a new method for studying infinite groups via their intrinsic geometry that …
The Private Abuse of the Public Interest – Market Myths and Policy Muddles
Despite George W. Bush's professed opposition to big government, federal spending has increased under his watch more quickly than it did during the Clinton administration, and …
Simplicial Objects in Algebraic Topology
Since it was first published in 1967, Simplicial Objects in Algebraic Topology has been the standard reference for the theory of simplicial sets and their relationship to the …
How to Make It as a Woman – Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present
How to Make It as a Woman outlines the history of prosopography or group biography, focusing on the all-female collections that took hold in nineteenth-century Britain and America. …
As Long As Trees Take Root in the Earth
A hopeful, music-infused poetry collection from Congolese poet Alain Mabanckou. These compelling poems by novelist and essayist Alain Mabanckou conjure nostalgia for an African …
Making It Up Together – The Art of Collective Improvisation in Balinese Music and Beyond
Most studies of musical improvisation focus on individual musicians. But that is not the whole story. From jazz to flamenco, Shona mbira to Javanese gamelan, improvised practices …