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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

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  Bruno Kreisky’s Foreign Policy: A Reassessment

  Günter Bischof and Michael Burri

  Despite his significance, the role of Austrian politician Bruno Kreisky remains under-represented in Anglo-American Cold War scholarship. Serving as foreign minister from 1959 to 1966 and chancellor from 1970 to 1983, his political career oversaw seismic developments in both Austria’s postwar recovery and broader international relations with the Middle East, ... Read More

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  Quantitative and Computational Approaches to Phonology

  Jane Chandlee

  This Element surveys the various lines of work that have applied algorithmic, formal, mathematical, statistical, and/or probabilistic methods to the study of phonology and the computational problems it solves. Topics covered include: how quantitative and/or computational methods have been used in research on both rule- and constraint-based theories of the ... Read More

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  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

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  Vigorous Reforms: Women Writers and the Politics of Health in the Nineteenth-century United States

  Jess Libow

  Nineteenth-century America saw profound changes in the ways people viewed their bodies, their health, and their corporeal connection to their environments. Though much of the writing about bodies was produced by men, Vigorous Reforms focuses on the understudied literary history of how women came to understand physicality and its connection ... Read More

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  Mobilization Politics: Governing Philadelphia in the Early Twenty-First Century

  Stephen McGovern

  Immigration, gentrification, and the rise of an innovation-based economy are altering American cities. In Mobilization Politics, Stephen J. McGovern offers a new approach to analyzing contemporary urban politics in light of these broad, societal changes. Redirecting the focus from the top-down orientation of regime theory toward a more bottom-up perspective, ... Read More

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  Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation

  Maliha Safri, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Stephen Healy, and Craig Borowiak

  Solidarity Cities analyzes the deeply entrenched racial and economic divides from which cooperative networks emerge as they work to provide unmet basic needs. The authors show how these initiatives act as bulwarks against gentrification, exploitation, and economic exclusion, helping readers see them as part of the past, present, and future ... Read More

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  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

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  Habsburg Encounters with Native America: Familiar Strangers

  Jonathan Singerton, Markéta Krízová, and Michael Burri

  The central European lands of the Habsburg monarchy have long shared an intertwined past with the Indigenous inhabitants of the Americas. This volume focuses on the process of encountering these peoples as a continual action across several centuries that has produced numerous and varied instances of cultural dialogues, perspectives, and ... Read More

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  Henry Cadbury: Quaker, Pacifist, and Skeptic

  James Krippner and David Harrington Watt

  This book introduces readers to the life, thought, social activism and political conflicts of the Quaker intellectual and peace activist Henry Cadbury (1883-1974). Born into an established Orthodox Philadelphia Quaker family, Cadbury was among the most prominent Quaker intellectuals of his day. During his lifetime, he was well known as ... Read More

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  Tell It Slant: A prophetic life of adventure & writing on religion, war, and justice, love and laughter

  Emma Jones Lapsansky-Werner

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  The Astronomers' Library: The Books that Unlocked the Mysteries of the Universe

  Karen Masters

  Indulge in this collection of the best astronomy books from the past 800 years. The Astronomers' Library is a rich history of astronomy (and astrology) publishing across Europe. This is a carefully selected arrangement of publications from all over the continent – Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, and the UK. ... Read More

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  Governance and Intervention in Mali: Elusive Security

  Susanna Wing

  This book provides the historical and political context for the security interventions in Mali over the past three decades. The work contextualizes external military engagement (including that of the United States, France, the United Nations and G5 Sahel) within the broader framework of weak democratic consolidation, unmet development goals and ... Read More

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  Thanks for Nothing: The Economics of Single Motherhood since 1980

  Nicholas H. Wolfinger and Matthew McKeever

  In Thanks for Nothing, Nicholas H. Wolfinger and Matthew McKeever explore the contradictions that lie at the heart of single motherhood. Drawing on forty years of data from two large national surveys, they find that the mystery of single mothers' economic stagnation can be explained by changes in the kind ... Read More

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  The Creation of Modern Quaker Diversity, 1830–1937

  Steven Ward Angell, Pink Dandelion, and David Harrington Watt

  The period from 1830 to 1937 was transformative for modern Quakerism. Practitioners made significant contributions to world culture, from their heavy involvement in the abolitionist and women’s rights movements and creation of thriving communities of Friends in the Global South to the large-scale post–World War I humanitarian relief efforts of ... Read More

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  Cognitive Neuroscience

  Marie T. Banich and Rebecca J. Compton

  Now in its fifth edition, this accessible and comprehensive text highlights the most important theoretical, conceptual and methodological issues in cognitive neuroscience. Written by two experienced researchers who excel at teaching, the consistent narrative ensures that concepts are linked across chapters, and the careful selection of topics enables readers to ... Read More

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  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

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  The Politics of Ritual

  Molly Farneth

  The Politics of Ritual is a major new account of the political power of rituals. In this incisive and wide-ranging book, Molly Farneth argues that rituals are social practices in which people create, maintain, and transform themselves and their societies. Far from mere scripts or mechanical routines, rituals are dynamic ... Read More

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  A Cultural History of Western Music in the Renaissance

  Richard Freedman and Jeanice Brooks

  A Cultural History of Western Music in the Renaissance covers the period from 1400 to 1650, examining structures of identity and the delicate relationships between self, society, and sound. What did listeners and creators want from music in the Renaissance? How were the forms and meanings of music shaped by ... Read More

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  Chakshudana or Opening the Eyes: Seeing South Asian Art Anew

  Pika Ghosh and Pushkar Sohoni

  Chakshudana or rituals of opening the eyes are practiced across multiple South Asian communities by artists, sculptors, and priests. The ritual offers gods access to the mortal world. This practice, applied to the study of material and visual culture, offers a distinctive perspective to interrogate the complex engagements with paintings, ... Read More

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  Peter Tiboris: A Musical Odyssey

  Alexander Kitroeff

  Peter Tiboris: A Musical Odyssey is a book length biography of internationally acclaimed conductor, music director and producer Peter Tiboris. The book follows Peter Tiboris’ life chronologically and it is divided into six chapters. It details a life devoted to music and the ways Tiboris benefitted from the support of ... Read More