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  • Notre Dame Cathedral

    Nine Centuries of History

    by Dany Sandron, Andrew Tallon ...
    Translated by Andrew Tallon, Lindsay Cook ...
    Since its construction, Notre Dame Cathedral has played a central role in French cultural identity. In the wake of the tragic fire of 2019, questions of how to restore the fabric of this quintessential French monument are once more at the forefront. This all-too-prescient book, first published in French in 2013, takes a central place in the conversation.The Gothic cathedral par excellence, Notre ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Shame of Survival

    Working Through a Nazi Childhood

    by Ursula Mahlendorf ...
    While we now have a great number of testimonials to the horrors of the Holocaust from survivors of that dark episode of twentieth-century history, rare are the accounts of what growing up in Nazi Germany was like for people who were reared to think of Adolf Hitler as the savior of his country, and rarer still are accounts written from a female perspective. Ursula Mahlendorf, born to a middle-class ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Light in Their Consciences

    Early Quakers in Britain, 1646–1666

    by Rosemary Moore ...
    Book 1 - The New History of Quakerism
    Hailed upon its publication as “history at its finest” by H. Larry Ingle and called “the essential foundation to explore early Quaker history” by Sixteenth Century Journal, Rosemary Moore’s The Light in Their Consciences is the most comprehensive, readable history of the first decades of the life and thought of The Society of Friends. This twentieth anniversary edition of Moore’s pathbreaking work ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Nothing but Love in God's Water

    Volume 1: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement

    by Robert Darden ...
    The first of two volumes chronicling the history and role of music in the African American experience, Nothing but Love in God’s Water explores how songs and singers helped African Americans challenge and overcome slavery, subjugation, and suppression. From the spirituals of southern fields and the ringing chords of black gospel to the protest songs that changed the landscape of labor and the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • George Sand

    by Martine Reid ...
    Translated by Gretchen van Slyke ...
    The romantic and rebellious novelist George Sand, born in 1804 as Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, remains one of France’s most infamous and beloved literary figures. Thanks to a peerless translation by Gretchen van Slyke, Martine Reid’s acclaimed biography of Sand is now available in English.Drawing on recent French and English biographies of Sand as well as her novels, plays, autobiographical texts ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Landscape into Eco Art

    Articulations of Nature Since the ’60s

    by Mark Cheetham ...
    Dedicated to an articulation of the earth from broadly ecological perspectives, eco art is a vibrant subset of contemporary art that addresses the widespread public concern with rapid climate change and related environmental issues. In Landscape into Eco Art, Mark Cheetham systematically examines connections and divergences between contemporary eco art, land art of the 1960s and 1970s, and the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Without God

    Michel Houellebecq and Materialist Horror

    by Louis Betty ...
    Michel Houellebecq is France’s most famous and controversial living novelist. Since his first novel in 1994, Houellebecq’s work has been called pornographic, racist, sexist, Islamophobic, and vulgar. His caricature appeared on the cover of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015, the day that Islamist militants killed twelve people in an attack on their offices and also the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Metanoia

    Rhetoric, Authenticity, and the Transformation of the Self

    by Adam Ellwanger ...
    Western culture is in a moment when wholly new kinds of personal transformations are possible, but authentic transformation requires both personal testimony and public recognition. In this book, Adam Ellwanger takes a distinctly rhetorical approach to analyzing how the personal and the public relate to an individual’s transformation and develops a new vocabulary that enables a critical assessment ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Kenneth Burke + The Posthuman

    Edited by Chris Mays, Nathaniel A. Rivers, Kellie Sharp-Hoskins ...
    Book 6 - RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
    While rhetoric as a discipline is firmly planted in humanism and anthropology, posthumanism seeks to leave the human behind. This highly original examination of Kenneth Burke’s thought grapples with these ostensibly contradictory concepts as opportunities for invention, revision, and, importantly, transdisciplinary knowledge making.Rather than simply mapping posthumanist rhetorics onto Burke’s ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Living from the Dead

    Disaffirming Biopolitics

    by Stuart J. Murray ...
    series RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
    In a society that aims above all to safeguard life, how might we reckon with ethical responsibility when we are complicit in sacrificial economies that produce and tolerate death as a necessity of life?Arguing that biopower can be fully exposed only through an analysis of those whom society has “let die,” Stuart J. Murray employs a series of transdisciplinary case studies to uncover the structural ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Ableist Rhetoric

    How We Know, Value, and See Disability

    by James L. Cherney ...
    Book 11 - RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
    Ableism, a form of discrimination that elevates “able” bodies over those perceived as less capable, remains one of the most widespread areas of systematic and explicit discrimination in Western culture. Yet in contrast to the substantial body of scholarly work on racism, sexism, classism, and heterosexism, ableism remains undertheorized and underexposed. In this book, James L. Cherney takes a ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Mysticism

    Experience, Response, and Empowerment

    by Jess Hollenback ...
    series Hermeneutics
    This sweeping study of mysticism by Jess Hollenback considers the writings and experiences of a broad range of traditional religious mystics, including Teresa of Avila, Black Elk, and Gopi Krishna. It also makes use of a new category of sources that more traditional scholars have almost entirely ignored, namely, the autobiographies and writings of contemporary clairvoyants, mediums, and out-of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD