8885 results for '"Michael E. Cuffaro (Editor)'

"Outstanding . . . a wide-ranging invitation to think through the moral ramifications of our eating habits." —The New YorkerOne of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year and...

The definitive history of the epic struggle for economic justice that became Martin Luther King Jr.'s last crusade. Memphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic "plantation mentality" embodied in its...

Dignity plays a central role in current thinking about law and human rights, but there is sharp disagreement about its meaning. Combining conceptual precision with a broad historical background,...

Michael Tolkin is one of Hollywood's hottest new players, a screenwriter and director who has created films that are intellectually uncompromising, provocative, hilarious, sexy, and brilliantly...

The Dialect of Modernism uncovers the crucial role of racial masquerade and linguistic imitation in the emergence of literary modernism.Rebelling against the standard language, and literature written...

"Since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, rights have become the dominant language of the public good around the globe. Struggles for rights--by women, aboriginal...

The transformation and reuse of old buildings is by no means only a kind of renovation in the simple sense, but it's about adjusting a certain site to accommodate new functions. The key is to find...

Much of the discussion surrounding the Holocaust and how it can be depicted sixty years later has focused on memory. In Forgetful Memory, Michael Bernard-Donals focuses on the relation between memory...

Law punishes violence, yet law depends on violence. In this book, a group of leading interdisciplinary legal scholars seeks to map the inexorable but unstable relationship of law to violence. What...

When the fourth edition of the highly acclaimed Oxford Companion to the Theatre appeared, The Philadelphia Inquirer recommended it as their 1983 book for theater-lovers, calling it "the scorecard you...

In this latest addition to Oxford's Modernist Literature & Culture series, renowned modernist scholar Michael North poses fundamental questions about the relationship between modernity and comic form...

An examination of how Western visions of endless future growth have contributed to the global environmental crisis "This book does something that is worth doing and that no other scholarly...

In The Borderlands of Science, Michael Shermer takes us to the place where real science, borderline science--and just plain nonsense--collide. Shermer argues that while science is the best lens...

For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of...

In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson—a renowned artist who regularly produced covers for The New Yorker, a gifted musician, a skilled amateur pilot, and a joyful presence to...

An urgent examination of the world barreling toward a new Cold War.With a historian’s eye and a theorist’s ingenuity, Michael Doyle, whose writings on liberal peace have revolutionized modern...

"A boisterous debut ... the authors are as funny as one would expect ... this is a hoot." ―Publishers Weekly "Will entice fans of Key & Peele ... a fun and funny primer on the art form." ―Booklist...

Workers in cultural industries often say that the best part of their job is the opportunity for creativity. At the same time, profit-minded managers at both traditional firms and digital platforms...

An accessible companion to Karl Marx's essential CapitalWith the recent revival of Karl Marx's theory, a general interest in reading Capital has also increased. But Capital—Marx’s foundational...

This new collection from Michael Knight--PEN/Hemingway citation recipient and B&N Discover Award finalist whom Esquire praises as "a writer of the first rank"--thrills and pierces with stories of men...