The 1973 Arab-Israeli War

From the publisher:  The October 1973 Middle East War transformed the region’s politics and had a huge impact on the international political system as a whole. Arguments about the causes, effects and meaning of the war and about why it ran its course the way it did have played a… Continue reading »

Embodying Peripheries

From the publisher: This book combines approaches from the design disciplines, humanities and social sciences to foster interdisciplinary engagement across geographies around the identities embodied in and of peripheries. Peripheral communities bear human faces and names, necessitating specific modes of inquiry and commitments that prioritize lived human experience and cultural… Continue reading »

Sondheim in Our Time and His

From the publisher: Sondheim in Our Time and His offers a wide-ranging historical investigation of the landmark works and extraordinary career of Stephen Sondheim [’50], a career that has spanned much of the history of American musical theater. Each author uncovers those aspects of biography, collaborative process and contemporary context… Continue reading »

Literary Information in China: A History

Across thee millennia of China’s literary history, the textual tradition has been supported by a framework of information processing, encoding, sorting and more—all marks of what today we consider information. Essays from contributors provide close examinations of the forms that make up the scales of information management and how they… Continue reading »

Encyclopedia of Knot Theory

From the publisher: Knot theory has proven to be a fascinating area of mathematical research, dating back about 150 years. Encyclopedia of Knot Theory provides short, interconnected articles on a variety of active areas in knot theory, and it includes beautiful pictures, deep mathematical connections and critical applications. Many of the… Continue reading »

Mi Cárcel

From the publisher: Este libro tiene su origen en el llamado «incidente de Palomares» de 1966, el desastre que ocurrió cuando Estados Unidos perdió un avión cisterna y un bombardero que llevaba cuatro bombas termonucleares en la localidad almeriense de Palomares. En 1967, doña Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo y… Continue reading »

The Latin American Ecocultural Reader

This collection of texts from the early colonial period to the present is centered on the natural world of Spanish-speaking countries and Brazil, featuring prominent authors from the canon—such as poets Rubén Darío, Alfonsina Storni and Pablo Neruda—and modern voices writing for marginalized communities within the environmental cultures, including Chico Mendes… Continue reading »

Knots, Low-Dimensional Topology and Applications

From the publisher: This proceedings volume presents a diverse collection of high-quality, state-of-the-art research and survey articles written by top experts in low-dimensional topology and its applications. The focal topics include the wide range of historical and contemporary invariants of knots and links and related topics such as three- and… Continue reading »