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A collection of essays by art historians on works of art, artifacts, and monuments that are no longer extant, have disappeared, or perhaps never existed outside of language. Addresses destruction, loss, obscurity, and existential uncertainty within the history of art and the study of historical material and visual cultures.

Demonstrates how comics can address topics such as disease outbreaks, opioid addiction prevention, healthcare reform, and climate change while eliciting empathy, clarifying complexity, and broadening perspectives.

A biography of a leading loyalist named Thomas Bradbury Chandler (1726?1790), exploring his advocacy of monarchy and his criticisms of the American revolutionary movement.

Examines the historiography of art and architecture in the German-speaking context in the first half of the twentieth century, with a focus on the tensions between individualism and collectivism. Centers on key art-historical figures, including Erwin Panofsky, Ernst Gombrich, and Hans Sedlmayr.

An eminent philosopher of the 20th century, W.V. Quine made contributions to the philosophy of science, mathematical logic, and the philosophy of language. This work examines Quine's views, particularly his holism and naturalism, for their value to feminist theorizing.

Daniel J Flood was among the last of the oldtime movers and shakers on Capitol Hill. Based on declassified FBI documents, court records, public papers, and contemporary newspaper accounts, as well as more than thirty interviews of Flood's widow, this title explodes the myths surrounding Pennsylvania's controversial - and colorful - congressman.

The 1987 NCAA championship football game between the Penn State Nittany Lions and the University of Miami Hurricanes is often considered the most memorable championship game in all of college football history. This book tells the story not just of this championship game but also of Penn State's entire season.

Musicians engage in many practices that may be viewed as modes of interpretation. This book aims at making the case for understanding these activities of transcribing, varying, and realizing music as various forms of interpretation.

Over the years, Pennsylvania has been graced with an abundance of writers whose work draws imaginatively on the state's history and culture. Common Wealth sings the essence of Pennsylvania through contemporary poetry. Whether Pennsylvania is their point of origin or their destination, the featured poets ultimately find what matters: heritage, pride, work, inventiveness, struggle, faith, beauty, hope. Keystone poets Marjorie Maddox and Jerry Wemple celebrate Pennsylvania with this wide range of new and veteran poets, including former state poet Samuel Hazo, National Book Award winner Gerald Stern, Pulitzer Prize winners Maxine Kumin, W.S. Merwin, and W.D. Snodgrass, and Reading-born master John Updike. The book's 103 poets also include such noted authors as Diane Ackerman, Maggie Anderson, Jan, Beatty, Robin Becker, Jim Daniels, Toi Derricotte, Gary Fincke, Harry Humes, Julia Kasdorf, Ed Ochester, Jay Parini, Len Roberts, Sonia Sanchez, Betsy Sholl, and Judith Vollmer. In these pages, poems sketch the landscapes and cultural terrain of the state, delving into the history, traditions, and people of Philadelphia, "Dutch" country, the coal-mining region, the Poconos, and the Lehigh Valley; the Three Rivers region; the Laurel Highlands; and Erie and the Allegheny National Forest. Theirs is a complex narrative cultivated for centuries in coal mines, kitchens, elevated trains, and hometowns, a tale that illuminates the sanctity of the commonplace--the daily chores of a Mennonite housewife, a polka dance in Coaldale, the late shift at a steel factory, the macadam of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. With its panoramic vision of Pennsylvania, its culture, and its thriving literary heritage, CommonWealth is a collection of remembrance for a state that continues to inspire countless contributions to American literature.

This text, originally published in Germany in 1990, proposes an extended and original interpretation of Kant, social morality, and philosophy of law. The author articulates his reading of Kant in the context of an account of modernity as a "polyphonous project".

This critique focuses on the rulings of the Warren Court during the late-1960's (an era of civil rights advances) with reference to the "institutionalisation" of welfare in the USA. The text also explores legal/political thought on welfare from as early as the 17th century.

Villanova is one of America's oldest and largest Catholic universities. Founded in 1842, it has seen great change in its 150-year history. Here, David Contosta presents a combination of text and photographs to recount the history of the school and the forces that have shaped its growth.

A collection of essays that explore the collapse of economic growth in Venezuela since the 1970s. Essays discuss the relevance of public investment, labor markets, fiscal policy, institutions, politics, and values.

A collection of essays examining Immanuel Kant's lectures and minor writings as well as his political essays. Offers a comprehensive introduction to Kant's political thought from a position of engagement with modern political and philosophical questions.

This text discusses observations and discoveries in the art and architecture of Rome.

Investigates the decline of the corporatist and inward-oriented postwar model of development during the 1970s and 1980s and the emergence of a new paradigm driven by the desire to participate in the process of globalization. Uses Argentina as a case study.

This text examines the lives of notaries and their families in the French city of Nantes during the 16th and 17th centuries, and the daily experience of middling urban families - from work to family to neighbourhood to involvment in local politics.

Traces the development of the American book trade from the colonial era through the twentieth century. Explores the technological, historical, cultural, political, and personal forces that shaped the trade, paying particular attention to the contributions of the German bookseller Frederick Leypoldt and his journal Publishers Weekly.

Examines the Old English riddles found in the tenth-century Exeter Book manuscript, with particular attention to their relationship to larger traditions of literary and traditional riddling.

Before the former Yugoslavia was divided by wars, its inhabitants lived side by side in peace. These essays seek to explain how former neighbours became enemies, with the hope that understanding what drove these peoples apart will help us discover ways for them to coexist in peace again.

Drawing on more than two hundred interviews, the author examines the political, structural, ideological and personal factors that allowed many Latin American women to escape from the constraints of their traditional roles and led some to participate in guerrilla activities.

Argues that the search for sincerity in the public arena actually constitutes a dangerous distraction from more important concerns, including factual truth and the ethical import of political statements. This title shows Plato to have an appreciation for rhetoric rather than a desire to purge it from public life.

This work offers a comprehensive history of the so-called Spiritual Franciscans, a protest movement within the Franciscan order. Burr shows that the movement existed as a loyal opposition in the late 13th century, but by 1318 Pope John XXII had forced it beyond the boundaries of legitimacy.