Creators of Science Fiction

"One early reviewer of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men described it as 'a book that refuses to call itself a book,' while another in similar spirit compared it to the unclassifiable textual monster that is Melville's Moby-Dick. Blinder's collection of consistently lively and illuminating essays does full justice to the haunting complexity of Agee and Evans's classic volume, issuing an irresistible invitation to revisit this unique mix of hot prose and cool photography." - Peter Nicholls, Professor of English, New York University

"Let Us Now Praise Famous Men may be understood as the most interstial of works: awkwardly poised, as it is, between photography and text; high art and journalism; lament and rebuke; religion and sociology; language and its failure; porch and cotton field . . . New Critical Essays on James Agee and Walker Evans gathers together the very considerable insights of cultural historians, literary and visual scholars, film experts, psychoanalytically persuaded critics and ethnographic readers. As such, read whole and with an eye to its own generative and apt interstices, the collection constitutes the best available guide to Evans and Agee's ongoing arguments." - Richard Godden, Professor of English, University of California-Irvine

Perspectives on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

New Critical Essays on James Agee and Walker Evans

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“Anyone interested in the ideas of James Buchanan will find this book worthwhile. … The book has extensive citations to Buchanan’s work, making it easy for readers who want to follow up on particular themes. … it does offer many biographical insights that provide interesting background on the development of some of the concepts that are found throughout Buchanan’s work. … Reisman has done an admirable job of organizing Buchanan’s ideas and presenting his outlook on social organization.” (Randall G. Holcombe, Public Choice, Vol. 164, 2015)

James Buchanan

"Jason W. Davidson's exceptional book is a must read for scholars and policy makers interested in knowing why states put troops in harm's way for the benefit of their allies. Davidson's masterful explanation of burden sharing is essential knowledge for students of history and politics, as well as decision makers crafting strategy for the future." - Patricia A. Weitsman, Professor of Political Science, Ohio University

"Much has been made about America's departure from its multilateralist past in recent years, but few have asked the question of why U.S. allies contribute to American military actions. Who are the willing in the 'coalitions of the willing?' And what do they gain from such contributions? Jason W. Davidson offers the most comprehensive account of this aspect of alliance politics so far, constructing a novel argument that blends elements of both international power and domestic needs. This is an important book for students and supporters of the transatlantic partnership." - Brian Rathbun, Assistant Professor of International Relations, University of Southern California

"Davidson's in-depth study, based on a large number of interviews with officials and opinion-makers, displays a profound understanding of the complex domestic forces and perceptions shaping foreign policy options. The analysis thus integrates first hand research materials and theoretical tools in assessing foreign policy.A careful screening of empirical results and the author's genuine curiosity of foreign political cultures makes for a rare combination." - Roberto Menotti, Senior Research Fellow, Aspen Institute Italia

'Focusing on Britain, France, and Italy in seven case studies, Davidson notes that they contributed a fair amount in Lebanon, the Persian Gulf War, Somalia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. They refrained, to be sure, in the case of Vietnam, and only Britain contributed in the Second Gulf War. Davidson uses three variables to explain this. If the 'alliance value' is high, if 'prestige' or 'threat' to national interest is high, and if public opinion is supportive or irrelevant, allies will contribute to US-led efforts.' - Choice

Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq

America's Allies and War

'This is a fascinating and creative approach to the study of early medieval Neoplatonism, part of Palgrave Macmillan's New Middle Ages Serices....the book is judicious and careful in its scholarly conclusions.' - John Peter Kenney, Ecclesiastical History

'Dr Harrington's book is fascinating, the product of obvious erudition...there are some brilliant insights in the treatment of medieval writings.' - A.M.C. Casiday, The Heythrop Journal

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“Matt Bowden has produced a rich, nuanced and complex analysis of the emergence of youth crime prevention in Ireland … . The detailed research – a combination of ethnography, participation and interviewing, across some 10 years of fieldwork in a series of youth projects – is preceded by an effective, though brief, political economy of Irish urban redevelopment … .” (Peter Squires, Urban Studies, Vol. 53 (1), January, 2016)“This book makes a significant contribution to both urban sociology and Irish criminology in terms of elaborating a compelling sociological framework for the study of youth and youth crime containment on the Irish urban periphery. … This is a great read. … This book would be of considerable interest to those engaged in sociology, public policy, crime, and the law.” (Mary P. Corcoran, Irish Journal of Sociology, 2016)'Matthew Bowden's book Crime, Disorder and Symbolic Violence represents a theoretically innovative, research-based contribution to the nascent body of sociological work on plural policing and the often hybrid forms of governing the urban periphery and in particular of young people in these supposed 'neo-liberal' times. Drawing on both Bourdieuian theoretical insights and a broadly realist conceptual framing, Bowden offers a compelling case study of Dublin's own 'urban periphery' and its contested youth governance. The book adds to the growing reputation of critical criminological scholarship in Ireland. The analysis presented and its broader policy and policy implications will also interest and engage advanced students and researchers throughout the international field of sociological criminology.' - Professor Gordon Hughes, Chair in Criminology, Cardiff University

Governing the Urban Periphery

Crime, Disorder and Symbolic Violence

“Rethinking the History of Education: Transnational Perspectives on its Questions, Methods, and Knowledge contributes to a long history of literature in diverse disciplines that reconsiders human agency in relation to social and historical forces and structures whose workings may not be immediately visible to the naked eye. … volume would be for historians of education to further extend this worthy transnational conversation to include not only other social science disciplines but also scholars working in other fields of history.” (Karen Lenore Taylor, Alberta Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 62.4, 2016)

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The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques & discoveries of the English nation made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres (Volume XII)

The Quest for First World War Poet Richard Aldington's Berkshire Retreat

The Death of a Hero

Physics: A Student Companion

Fakten und Praxistipps aus der Lebensstilforschung

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Battles of the Civil War

'An important contribution to our understanding of language and ethnicity, this collection problematizes traditional social categories of class, race, gender and ethnicity. It reminds us that 'the circumstances of language maintenance are just as politicized as those of language spread, and just as likely to serve nefarious political and economic interests-and it is just as incumbent on linguists to study and call attention to them.' Most importantly, this volume underscores the value of approaches to the study of language and ethnicity that fall outside the traditional sociolinguistic focus on language variation.' - Guadalupe Valdés, Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor of Education and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford University

English and Ethnicity

Banking reform is critical to the health of national economies and global financial markets alike. In this book, Saez achieves what few others have: a serious, sustained and comparative analyis of the political economy conditions that either stall or promote such reform. His findings should be read by policymakers, investors, and all concerned about economic development and globalization. - Kathleen R. McNamara, Associate Professor of Government, Georgetown University

"Since globalization went into high gear in the wake of the Cold War, two giant countries have surged to the forefront of rapid economic development by opening to the outside world: India and (above all) China. While both have attracted their share of scholarly attention, comparisons have been rare and usually fairly general. This brilliant, pioneering book by Dr. Lawrence Saez is the first and best comparative analysis of the financial sectors of these two pace-making developers since both opted for economic globalization." - Lowell Dittmer, Professor of Political Science, University of California at Berkeley, and author of Informal Politics in East Asia.

"Managing banking reform has been one of the most challenging tasks for bank policymakers and regulators in every country that has attempted to do so. India and China pose particular difficulties arising from entrenchment, China on account of its political structure and India on account of its poor, yet politically active, rural population. Saez's book provides a thorough and comprehensive analysis of these issues. Along the way, a useful history of the growth of the banking system is also presented, a must-read for the economic and political historian working in the area. Banking Reform in India and China is of further value given the unexpectedly sustained rise of China and the recent economic growth in India. The book, especially the discussion on central bank independence, brings out the importance of financial reform in a newly growing economy and thus provides a valuable conceptual perspective to students of institution-driven growth." - Dr. Rafiq Dossani, Senior Research Scholar, Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford University

"Lawrence Saez has written a finely tuned, cogent and careful analysis of the banking systems in China and India, He is both informative, balanced and thorough while avoiding the rhetorical embellishments of some authors. Saez has given us in this compact book a solid introduction to the process in India and China. This is an important task and he has done it very well." - Joyce K Kallgren, University of California

"Banking Reform in India and China is the most comprehensive comparative analysis of the two countries' banking systems that I have read thus far. Students of India and China will find the comparative approach helpful in elucidating why the content and outcomes of banking reform has differed substantially in the two countries - and readers interested in emerging market economies and financial crises more generally, will be interested to learn how the banking reform experience in India and China challenges conventional assumptions about the relationship between corporate governance and the banking system, and the relative importance of central bank independence." - Kellee Tsai, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University

Banking Reform in India and China

"Cohesion in Film really is that rare thing, a genuinely new contribution to film studies. Earlier attempts at applying linguistic concepts to film theory have not always been particularly illuminating. Tseng's adaptation of systemic functional linguistics, however, provides a lucid and precise method for close readings of films. It is based on a solid analysis of how films offer information and how we process that information so that it makes narrative sense." - Henry Bacon, Professor of Film and Television Studies, University of Helsinki

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