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Elizabeth A Athens
William Bartram's Visual Wonders

Winner, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia 2024 Literary Award for NonfictionPennsylvania naturalist William Bartram (1739-1823) is best known as the author of a travelogue describing his botanizing journey th…

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Angela Ball
Steeplechase

Steeplechaseexplores multiple landscapes, including Mississippi and its many church steeples; countries known and unknown; cities and inhabitants both aspirational and lost. Its voice is humorous, bewilde…

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Aristides Baltas
Peeling Potatoes or Grinding Lenses

"I can work best now while peeling potatoes. . . . It is for me what lens-grinding was for Spinoza."--L. WittgensteinMore than 250 years separate the publication of Baruch Spinoza's Ethics and L…

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Domenico Bertoloni Meli
Investigations of Nature

Investigations of Nature takes us on a guided tour through history, when voyages of exploration and exploitation were tied to technological advances in navigation and warfare; religious unity was broken w…

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Catherine Boland Erkkila
Boland Erkkila, C: Spaces of Immigration

By transporting waves of newly arrived immigrants along rail lines from both coasts, railway companies played an active role in repopulating the interior of the country. Spaces of Immigration follows the …

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Zachary L Brodt
From the Steel City to the White City

In From the Steel City to the White City, Zachary Brodt explores Western Pennsylvania's representation at Chicago's Columbian Exposition, the first major step in demonstrating that Pittsburgh was more tha…

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Shannon Cain
The Necessity of Certain Behaviors

Winner of the 2011 Drue Heinz Literature PrizeShannon Cain's stories chart the treacherous territory of the illicit. They expose the absurdity of our rituals, our definitions of sexuality, and above all, …

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Ncolas Campisi
The Return of the Contemporary

In The Return of the Contemporary, Nicolás Campisi combines the fields of post-dictatorship studies and environmental humanities to analyze Latin American cultural production in the neoliberal age. Each c…

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Kameryn Alexa Carter
Antediluvian

Antediluvianengages with themes of the ecstatic, desire, mental illness, and spirituality. Written in part during the COVID-19 pandemic, the book's speaker calls on an intertextual constellation of artist…

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Stephen Case
Case, S: Creatures of Reason

In his lifetime, John Herschel was Britain's best-known natural philosopher, a world celebrity, and arguably the first modern scientist of the generation in which the term itself was invented. The polymat…

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Joseph S Cialdella
Motor City Green

Winner, 2021 CCL J. B. Jackson Book Prize Winner, 2020 Jon Gjerde Prize from the Midwestern History AssociationMotor City Green is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the late nineteent…

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Agnese Codebo
Codebo, A: Slum and the City

The Argentine capital is largely perceived as a middle-class space. Yet in reality, urban poverty and precarious settlements are defining features of the city. Agnese Codebò investigates how slums have pr…

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Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative
Writing Architectural History

Over the past two decades, scholarship in architectural history has transformed, moving away from design studio pedagogy and postmodern historicism to draw instead from trends in critical theory focusing …

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Marilyn M Cooper
The Animal Who Writes

Writing begins with unconscious feelings of something that insistently demands to be responded to, acted upon, or elaborated into a new entity. Writers make things that matter--treaties, new species, soft…

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D&,
Gravitation

Translated by Nathan FieldsThe selected poetry of Milan Dězinský, translated by Nathan Fields, including many poems previously not published in English by the celebrated Czech poet.

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Adrienne Denoyelles
Denoyelles, A: Lung Block

Public health, housing, poverty, and immigration dominated social and political discourse in early twentieth-century New York, much as they do today. The Lower East Side provided an urban environment wher…

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Jose Carlos Diaz-Zanelli
Insurgent Veins

Insurgent Veins examines the decolonial ideological bridge between the early twentieth-century indigenista literary tradition and its influence on the consolidation of Indigenous literature, which emerged…

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Denise Duhamel
Pink Lady

When her mother agrees to enter a Rhode Island nursing home in December of 2019, Denise Duhamel promises she'll visit at least once a month. By March of 2020, everyone is in lockdown. The elegies in Pink …

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Marshall C Eakin
Empires and Exploration

Empires and Explorations interweaves nineteenth-century Brazilian history, the extraordinary life of Richard Francis Burton, and the use of travel writing by historians. Burton witnessed the origins of th…

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Lara Egger
Flop Era

Flop Era reckons with the complications of being human, and therefore, with the consequences of being fundamentally flawed. It contends with failed potential and the certain uncertainty of the future, whi…

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