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Lost Plays of Old Comedy

Matthew C. Farmer

This is the first accessible volume exploring and analysing evidence for Greek Old Comedy through what remains only in the form of fragments of plays.Hundreds of comedies were written and performed in Athens during this period (roughly 486-386 BCE), but only eleven survive intact from this era; all eleven are ... Read More
The Norton Anthology of African-American Literature (4th ed.)

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Valerie A. Smith, William L. Andrews, and Kimberly W. Benston

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature brings together an extraordinary array vast in scope and deep in cultural and historical significance. Preeminent scholar and public intellectual Henry Louis Gates Jr., who presided over the book's creation in the 1990s, continues as general editor, working with a team of highly ... Read More
Political Undesirables: Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Reclamation in Iraq

Zainab Saleh

Political Undesirables considers the legal making and unmaking of citizenship in Iraq, focusing on the mass denaturalization and deportation of Iraqi Jews in 1950–51 and Iraqis of Iranian origin in the early 1980s. Since the formation of the modern state of Iraq under British rule in 1921, practices of denaturalization ... Read More
The Island of Doctor Moreau: A Norton Critical Edition

H. G. Wells and Kimberly W. Benston

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1896 William Heinemann edition of Wells’s novel—a cauldron of scientific ambition, interspecies conflict, and neocolonial violence—with a glossary of nautical, botanical, and geological terms. A preface with a note on the text, contextualizing headnotes, and explanatory footnotes by Kimberly W. Benston. Eight illustrations, including ... Read More
Persians

Aeschylus and Deborah H. Roberts

The only surviving play of Aeschylus to be based on a historical event—the Greek victory at Salamis just a few years before the play was written—Persians appears in Deborah H. Roberts' brilliant new verse translation accompanied by her Introduction, Notes, Maps, and Chronology. Also included are newly translated excerpts from ... Read More
Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy

Carola Binder

Many foundational moments in American economic history—the establishment of paper money, wartime price controls, the rise of the modern Federal Reserve—occurred during financial panics as prices either inflated or deflated sharply. The government’s decisions in these moments, intended to control price fluctuations, have produced both lasting effects and some of ... Read More
A Companion to Aristophanes

Matthew C. Farmer and Jeremy B. Lefkowitz

A Companion to Aristophanes provides an invaluable set of foundational resources for undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars alike. More than a basic reference text, this innovative volume situates each of Aristophanes' surviving plays within discussion of key themes relevant to the study of the Aristophanic corpus. Throughout the Companion, an ... Read More
Inclusivity in Introductory STEM Courses: A Guide to Improving Student (and Instructor!) Mindsets

Lou K. Charkoudian, Carla Fröhlich, and Mike Hildreth

Inclusivity in Introductory STEM Courses: A Guide to Improving Student (and Instructor!) Mindsets grew out of a Cottrell Scholar Collaborative project to help create more inclusive STEM learning spaces, in collaboration with FLAMENet, a national network of science faculty, psychologists, and education researchers working to develop and research interventions to ... Read More
The Crisis of Catiline: Rome, 63 BCE

Bret Mulligan

The Crisis of Catiline situates students in Rome in 63 BCE during a time of urban and rural tumult, economic instability, sensational trials, and electoral misconduct. Lucius Sergius Catilina (or “Catiline”), a charismatic and scandal-plagued noble, has proposed radical reforms that are favored by the urban and rural poor. But ... Read More
Confronting Failure: Approaches to Building Confidence and Resilience in Undergraduate Researchers

Lisa A. Corwin, Louise K. Charkoudian, and Jennifer M. Heemstra

In this open-access book, authors from a range of disciplines--from geosciences to drama--capture how failure manifests and can be productively supported in a range of undergraduate research experiences. Whether the learning environment is a STEM research lab, a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE), a humanities summer undergraduate research experience, a ... Read More
Theopompos: Introduction, Translation, Commentary

Matthew C. Farmer

Theopompos was one of the leading comic playwrights of late fifth- and early fourth-century Athens, competing actively with the great Aristophanes and winning several victories. This volume presents the first complete translation and commentary on his surviving fragments. He participated in important trends during the transition from Old to Middle ... Read More
Anxious Experts: Disaster Response and Spiritual Care from 9/11 to the Climate Crisis

Joshua Moses

The book also provides a lens through which to understand the historical dimensions of disaster-related trauma, its treatment, and the ways that therapeutic and spiritual practices imply politics. By studying the intersection of mental health and spirituality in the context of disaster, we gain essential insight into apocalyptic and dystopic ... Read More
The Poetry of Ennodius: Translated with an Introduction and Notes

Bret Mulligan

The Poetry of Ennodius offers the first translation into English verse of the entire eclectic corpus of sacred and secular poetry by Magnus Felix Ennodius (c. 473/4–521 CE), amply supplemented by detailed notes that elucidate the literary and cultural references essential for understanding this poet.
American Literature in Transition, 1876–1910

Lindsay V. Reckson

Addressing US literature from 1876 to 1910, this volume aims to account for the period's immense transformations while troubling the ideology of progress that underwrote much of its self-understanding. This volume queries the various forms and formations of post-Reconstruction American literature. It contends that the literature of this period, most ... Read More
30-Second Space Travel: 50 Key Ideals, Inventions, and Destinations That Have Inspired Humanity Toward the Heavens

Charles Liu, Karen Masters, and Allen Liu

As Space X works to reduce the barriers of access to space and Virgin Galactic forges a path to commercial spaceflight for the masses, we have begun to cross the realms of science fiction into the reality of humans viewing the cosmos with their own eyes. Part of an internationally ... Read More
Translation and Temporality in Benoît de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie

Maud Burnett McInerney

The story of the Trojan War has been told and retold across the ages, from Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid to recent film and television adaptations. The peoples of medieval Europe were especially enthralled with the tale of the siege of the great city by the Greeks, and by the ... Read More
The Days of Afrekete: A Novel

Asali Solomon

Liselle Belmont is having a dinner party. It seems a strange occasion—her husband, Winn, has lost his bid for the state legislature—but what better way to thank key supporters than a feast? Liselle was never sure about her husband becoming a politician, never sure about the limelight, never sure about ... Read More
Genetic Analysis: Genes, Genomes, and Networks in Eukaryotes (3rd. ed.)

Philip Meneely

Genetic Analysis applies the combined power of molecular biology, genetics, and genomics to explore how the principles of genetics can be used as analytical tools to solve biological problems. Opening with a brief overview of key genetic principles, model organisms, and epigenetics, the book goes on to explore the use ... Read More
Sugar, Smoke, Song: A Novel

Reema Rajbanshi

Sugar, Smoke, Song is a collection of nine linked stories set in the Bronx, California, India, and Brazil. Following the secrets and passions of young women, these stories and their narrators cross genres and rules to arrive at unforeseen lives. A subway rider remembers enacting the gods with her estranged ... Read More
Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature

Lindsay V. Reckson

Recovering a series of ecstatic performances in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American realism, Realist Ecstasy travels from camp meetings to Native American ghost dances to storefront church revivals to explore realism’s relationship to spiritual experience. In her approach to realism as both an unruly archive of performance and a ... Read More
Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia

Zainab Saleh

With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. Return to Ruin tells the human story of this exile in the context of decades of U.S. imperial interests in Iraq—from the U.S. backing of the 1963 Ba'th coup and ... Read More
Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life

Gustavus Stadler

Woody Guthrie is often mythologized as the classic American “rambling’ man,” a real-life Steinbeckian folk hero who fought for working-class interests and inspired Bob Dylan. Biographers and fans frame him as a foe of fascism and focus on his politically charged folk songs. What’s left unexamined is how the bulk ... Read More
The Archive of Fear: White Crisis and Black Freedom in Douglass, Stowe, and Du Bois

Christina L. Zwarg

Not about Haiti but about the haunting power of its revolution, The Archive of Fear explores the traumatic force field that continued to inflect U.S. discussions of slavery and abolition both before and after the Civil War, sometimes with surprising intensity and endurance. Focusing on U.S. slavery and its aftermath ... Read More
Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers

Anne Balay

Long-haul trucking is linked to almost every industry in America, yet somehow the working-class drivers behind big rigs remain largely hidden from public view. Gritty, inspiring, and often devastating oral histories of gay, transsexual, and minority truck drivers allow award-winning author Anne Balay to shed new light on the harsh ... Read More
Trickster Theatre: The Poetics of Freedom in Urban Africa (African Expressive Cultures)

Jesse Weaver Shipley

Trickster Theatre traces the changing social significance of national theatre in Ghana from its rise as an idealistic state project from the time of independence to its reinvention in recent electronic, market-oriented genres. Jesse Weaver Shipley presents portraits of many key figures in Ghanaian theatre and examines how Akan trickster ... Read More