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How food systems reflect our values and contribute to our economy, environment, and culture

Explore the mind and motivations of a serial killer

Though it has been one of the most influential critical works of the last fifty years, Wayne Booth's The Rhetoric of Fiction has disappointed many readers in its treatment of modernism. Despite Booth's astute and influential readings of earlier novels, his system shed little light on the experiments in point of view that characterize many more recent works. Despite a revision some two decades after its first publication, the book continues to strike many readers as outdated in its choices of authors and texts. In a bold updating of that seminal work, Morton P. Levitt, long-time editor of the Journal of Modern Literature, explores the rhetoric of point of view in modernist and post-modernist novels, offering new insights into some of the greatest works of the last century. As the editor of one of the most important journals in the field, Levitt has been uniquely situated to absorb and reflect critically upon the most significant scholarship on modernist fiction. In a series of subtle, persuasive readings, he demonstrates that the rejection of omniscience is one of the defining characteristics of modernist and post-modernist novels. From Joyce and Woolf to Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, and José Saramago, Levitt discusses a wide range of texts in readings that will be accessible to students and invaluable to scholars.

This book traces the Quaker experience in New England and New York from the Arrival of the first English Quaker missionaries in 1646 to 1790. The first Friends faced considerable hostility, so much so that it took almost eighty years for Quakers and their antagonists to solve their differences. By then, Quakers had settled into a comfortable period of numerical increase, and, to the extent that colonies permitted, participated as individuals in colonial political life. During the early eighteenth century Quaker organizational and disciplinary structures derived from the late seventeenth century underwent gradual evolution, but not to the extent of altering the basically comfortable arrangement that served to promote the growth of Friends. After 1750, however, Quakers throughout the colonies entered a period of reform, a reform that led to a numerical decline in older centers and to a drastic reduction in numerical growth. Reform ultimately caused Friends to sharpen their positions on antislavery and pacifism and led to a withdrawal from political participation. Ultimately, it pointed the way to the disastrous nineteenth-century Quaker schisms.

A field guide to mammal tracks with detailed illustrations, concise useful information, and a key for identification.

B.B. French knew just about everything and everyone in the sweep of American history from the Age of Jackson to the Civil War and Reconstruction. His recollections shed light on the personalities, events, manners, and politics of the times.

Traces the historical development of civil society and philanthropy in the West and analyzes their role in solving the problems faced by modern liberal democracy

Available in its complete form for the first time since its original publication.

The final edition of a valuable reference work documenting the story of Communism from its beginnings to its amazing collapse.

In Why the Grateful Dead Matter, veteran writer and lifelong Deadhead Michael Benson argues that the Grateful Dead are not simply a successful rock-and-roll band but a phenomenon central to American culture.

A distinctive American subculture responds to the forces of social change.

A timely story of whistleblowing in wartime

Now in paperback, the New York Times best-selling biography of the legendary Revolutionary War patriot and America's first spy

The updated edition of a classic contemporary account of Vermont's environmental history, told through the interaction of natural and human components

A leading Frost critic guides the reader through some of the poet's most challenging verse.

Short stories explore cultural change and class conflict in contemporary West Virginia.

Keith Thomas's earlier studies in the ethnography of early modern England, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Ends of Life, were all attempts to explore beliefs, values, and social practices in the centuries from 1500 to 1800. In Pursuit of Civility continues this quest by examining what English people thought it meant to be "civilized" and how that condition differed from being "barbarous" or "savage." Thomas shows that the upper ranks of society sought to distinguish themselves from their social inferiors by distinctive ways of moving, speaking, and comporting themselves, and that the common people developed their own form of civility. The belief of the English in their superior civility shaped their relations with the Welsh, the Scots, and the Irish, and was fundamental to their dealings with the native peoples of North America, India, and Australia. Yet not everyone shared this belief in the superiority of Western civilization; the book sheds light on the origins of both anticolonialism and cultural relativism. Thomas has written an accessible history based on wide reading, abounding in fresh insights, and illustrated by many striking quotations and anecdotes from contemporary sources.

A dramatic story of the interplay between environment and economy in New England.

How turning writing into a habit is the best tool an author can possess.

A book for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the natural world

Using the teachings of such influential men as Vico to Aries to Foucault, Patrick H. Hutton surveys the ways in which the art of memory has become integrated into historical thinking.

A clear and detailed study of Latin American women's history from the late nineteenth century to the present.

A revolutionary reconceptualization of capital and perception during the twentieth century.

Essays forging a new definition of Romanticism that includes the wide range of women's artistic expression.

Thirty-six artists, scientists, and renowned writers go wild about the virtues, pleasure, and importance of dirt!