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The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon (c.1214-92) is one of the most influential scientific and philosophical texts of its age and arguably the high point of medieval knowledge of the physical sciences. In...

Why have Israelis and Palestinians failed to achieve a two-state solution to the conflict that has cost so much and lasted so long? In Paradigm Lost, Ian S. Lustick brings fifty years as an analyst...

This authoritative work was, at the time of its first publication, the first full-length book to cover in detail the collecting of Pennsylvania "Dutch" furnishings and crafts. It was subsequently...

Poisoned Relations : Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic WorldAuthor: Chelsea BerryPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublication Date: Sep 17, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

In Precarious Lives, Shahram Khosravi attempts to reconcile the paradoxes of Iranians' everyday life in the first decade of the twenty-first century. On the one hand, multiple circumstances of...

Prehistories of the War on Terror : A Critical GenealogyAuthor: A J Yumi Lee, Karen R MillerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublication Date: Sep 24, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

These two volumes, bound together, represent the papers, comments, and rejoinders presented at the Conference on Consumption and Saving held 30-31 March 1959 at the Wharton School of Finance and...

Expert analysis of American governance challenges and recommendations for reform Two big ideas serve as the catalyst for the essays collected in this book. The first is the state of governance in the...

Recommendations from the scientific community to ensure that the development and use of AI honors scientific norms In late 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT, an AI chatbot capable of generating...

In Religion in the Public Square, James M. Patterson considers religious leaders who popularized theology through media campaigns designed to persuade the public. Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Dr. Martin...

A sweeping history of the Native Southerners who wrote their principles into Spanish and English law A sweeping history of the Native Southerners who challenged European empires from the inside,...

Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography : The Formation of a Discipline at the Turn of the Nineteenth CenturyAuthor: Stefan H. UhligPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublication Date:...

Sacred Places Tell Tales is the previously untold history of Egyptian Jewry and the ways in which Cairo's synagogues historically functioned as active institutions in the social lives of these Jews...

What does the keyword "continence" in Love's Labor's Lost reveal about geopolitical boundaries and their breaching? What can we learn from the contemporary identification of the "quince" with...

A collection of thought-provoking essays that treat the political, social, and philosophical themes of Shakespeare's plays In Shakespearean Issues, Richard Strier has written a set of linked essays...

She Changed the Nation : Barbara Jordan's Life and Legacy in Black PoliticsAuthor: Mary Ellen CurtinPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublication Date: Sep 10, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

What is de facto about the de facto state? In Sovereignty Suspended, this question guides Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay through a journey into de facto state-building, or the process of constructing...

During the first quarter-century after its founding, the United States was swept by a wave of land speculation so unprecedented in intensity and scale that contemporaries and historians alike have...

An in-depth analysis of literary and cultural productions from Haiti and the Dominican Republic and their diasporas Spirals in the Caribbean responds to key questions elicited by the human rights...

Argues that the foundation of Israel was a trauma that destabilized the kibbutz's conceptual grounding State of Shock decodes one of the most iconic images of Zionism and Israel: the kibbutz. Lior...

How German Jews used photographs to document their experiences in the face of National SocialismStill Lives is a systematic study of the ways Jews used photographs to document their experiences in...

Terrence Malick is one of American cinema's most celebrated filmmakers. His films--from Badlands (1973) and Days of Heaven (1978) to The Thin Red Line (1998), The Tree of Life (2011), and, most...

Pirandello, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is a little known to most English readers. Too few of his plays and stories have been translated. This hook, therefore, serves the double purpose...

The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern EnglandAuthor: Holly Crawford PickettPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublication Date: Mar 12, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

The Driver's Story : Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic SlaveryAuthor: Randy M. BrownePublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublication Date: May 07, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

The Emergence of Arabic Poetry : From Regional Identities to Islamic CanonizationAuthor: Nathaniel A. MillerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublication Date: Aug 13, 2024Number of Pages:...

The End of Peacekeeping : Gender, Race, and the Martial Politics of InterventionAuthor: Marsha Giselle HenryPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublication Date: Mar 12, 2024Number of Pages:...

A fresh examination of the formidable and resilient Native nations who helped shape the modern Gulf South In The Great Power of Small Nations, Elizabeth N. Ellis (Peoria) tells the stories of the...

The Inquisition's Inquisitor : Henry Charles Lea of PhiladelphiaAuthor: Richard L. KaganPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublication Date: Oct 15, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

A collection of essays that considers the editorial and interpretive strategies for dealing with complex Shakespearean texts In his own time, Shakespeare was not a monument, but a man of the theater...