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To Go Into the Words

By Norman Finkelstein
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, Writing
Series: Poets on Poetry

A critical look at transcendence and a radical delight with language

Realisms in East Asian Performance

Edited by Jessica Nakamura & Katherine Saltzman-Li
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Asian Studies, China, Japan, Korea

Essays by leading scholars expand understandings of theatrical realism through East Asian performances across premodern, modern, and contemporary periods

Seriously Mad

Mental Distress and the Broadway Musical

By Aleksei Grinenko
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Music, Musicology, Disability Studies, Psychology

Explores the history of American musical theater’s engagement with notions of madness, from Man of La Mancha to A Strange Loop

The Dybbuk Century

The Jewish Play That Possessed the World

Edited by Debra Caplan & Rachel Merrill Moss
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Jewish Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature

How a 100-year-old play about spiritual possession beyond the grave continues to engage and fascinate

Jamming the Classroom

Musical Improvisation and Pedagogical Practice

By Ajay Heble & Jesse Stewart
Subjects: Music, Musicology
Series: Music and Social Justice

Musical improvisation as a vehicle for teaching, learning, and enacting social justice

Preparing Adult English Learners to Write for College and the Workplace

Edited by Kirsten Schaetzel, Joy Kreeft Peyton, and Rebeca Fernández
Subjects: Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, Teacher Training, English as a Second Language (ESL)

Tracks on the Trail

Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency

By Dana Gorzelany-Mostak
Subjects: Music, Popular Music, American Studies, Political Science, American Politics
Series: Tracking Pop

How music defines US presidential campaigns

Security. Cooperation. Governance.

The Canada-United States Open Border Paradox

Edited by Christian Leuprecht & Todd Hataley
By Christian Leuprecht
Subjects: Political Science, Governance, International Relations

Reveals Canada–US border and security policies vary drastically depending on regional needs

Millions of Suns

On Writing and Life

By M.C. Benner Dixon & Sharon McDermott
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Writing
Series: Writers on Writing

Invites all writers to share their own perspective

Communicating the Other across Cultures

From Othering as Equipment for Living, to Communicating Other/Wise

By Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Political Science, International Relations, History, Intellectual History

Exposes how we have constructed and marginalized the Other across cultures, and suggests creative global solutions for inclusive multiculturalism

Poetry, History, Memory

Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times

By Zhiyi Yang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, History, Chinese History

The first comprehensive biography of Wang Jingwei, a poet, politician, and the most controversial figure in modern Chinese history

Making Academic Presentations

What Every University Student Needs to Know

By Robyn Brinks Lockwood
Subjects: English as a Second Language (ESL), Education, Higher Education

Encourages academic success by guiding students through the steps of an academic presentation

A Passion for Cooperation

Adventures of a Wide-Ranging Scientist

By Robert Axelrod
Subjects: Memoir, Political Science, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Ann Arbor/University of Michigan, Politics

A lifetime of achieving the gold standard of interdisciplinary research

Cosmopolitan Love

Utopian Vision in D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang

By Sijia Yao
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Cultural Studies

Analyzes the writing of D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang to envision how love crosses cultural boundaries

Presidential Accountability in Wartime

President Bush, the Treatment of Detainees, and the Laws of War

By Stuart Streichler
Subjects: Political Science, Human Rights, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Political History

Examines how and why holding US presidents accountable for war crimes is an obligatory but impossible task in the American constitutional system

The Persistence of Dance

Choreography as Concept and Material in Contemporary Art

By Erin Brannigan
Subjects: Dance, Art, Art History

Exploring museum-based choreography as a contemporary art medium

Paris and the Art of Transposition

Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters

By Angie Chau
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Art, Art History
Series: China Understandings Today

How Chinese artists created a transnational imaginary

Alan Rudolph's Trouble in Mind

Tampering with Myths

By Caryl Flinn
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies
Series: Out of the Archives

A critical analysis of Alan Rudolph’s dreamy neo-noir

Inhabiting the Impossible

Dance and Experimentation in Puerto Rico

Edited by Susan Homar & nibia pastrana santiago
Subjects: Dance, Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

Artists and scholars celebrate the development, diversity, and ethics of Puerto Rican experimental dance