Cornell University Press: 1150 books
The Death of Tolstoy
Russia on the Eve, Astapovo Station, 1910
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the middle of the night of October 28, 1910, Leo Tolstoy, the most famous man in Russia, vanished. A secular saint revered for his literary genius, pacificism, and dedication to the earth and the poor, Tolstoy had left his home in secret to embark on a final journey. His disappearance immediately...
Clara Schumann
The Artist and the Woman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This absorbing and award-winning biography tells the story of the tragedies and triumphs of Clara Wieck Schumann (1819–1896), a musician of remarkable achievements. At once artist, composer, editor, teacher, wife, and mother of eight children, she was an important force in the musical world of her...
Reckoning with the Imagination
Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Literary Experience
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Much current theorizing about literature involves efforts to renew our sense of aesthetic values in reading. Such is the case with new formalism as well as recent appeals to the notion of "surface reading." While sympathetic to these efforts, Charles Altieri believes they ultimately fall short because...
Pythagoras
His Life, Teaching, and Influence
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
One of the most important mathematical theorems is named after Pythagoras of Samos, but this semi-mythical Greek sage has more to offer than formulas. He is said to have discovered the numerical nature of the basic consonances and transposed the musical proportions to the cosmos, postulating a "harmony...
Thinking in Time
An Introduction to Henri Bergson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"In recent years, we have grown accustomed to philosophical language that is intensely self-conscious and rhetorically thick, often tragic in tone. It is enlivening to read Bergson, who exerts so little rhetorical pressure while exacting such a substantial effort of thought.... Bergson's texts teach...
The Anxiety of Freedom
Imagination and Individuality in Locke's Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The enduring appeal of liberalism lies in its commitment to the idea that human beings have a "natural" potential to live as free and equal individuals. The realization of this potential, however, is not a matter of nature, but requires that people be molded by a complex constellation of political...
Bones around My Neck
The Life and Exile of a Prince Provocateur
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Prince Prisdang Chumsai (1852–1935) served as Siam’s first diplomat to Europe during the most dramatic moment of Siam’s political history, when its independence was threatened by European imperialism. Despite serving with patriotic zeal, he suffered irreparable social and political ruin based...
From She-Wolf to Martyr
The Reign and Disputed Reputation of Johanna I of Naples
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
In 1343 a seventeen-year-old girl named Johanna (1326–1382) ascended the Neapolitan throne, becoming the ruling monarch of one of medieval Europe’s most important polities. For nearly forty years, she held her throne and the avid attention of her contemporaries. Their varied responses to her reign...
by Paul F. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Paul F. Clark believes union leaders should take advantage of the valuable discoveries made in behavioral science to make their organizations more effective and, in Building More Effective Unions, he offers an accessible and straightforward account of how they can do so. The second edition provides...
by Éric Rebillard
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
In this provocative book Éric Rebillard challenges many long-held assumptions about early Christian burial customs. For decades scholars of early Christianity have argued that the Church owned and operated burial grounds for Christians as early as the third century. Through a careful reading of primary...
Nation-Empire
Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
By the end of World War II, hundreds of thousands of young men in the Japanese colonies, in particular Taiwan and Korea, had expressed their loyalty to the empire by volunteering to join the army. Why and how did so many colonial youth become passionate supporters of Japanese imperial nationalism?...
by Dominick LaCapra
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In History, Literature, Critical Theory, Dominick LaCapra continues his exploration of the complex relations between history and literature, here considering history as both process and representation. A trio of chapters at the center of the volume concern the ways in which history and literature...
City of Forests, City of Farms
Sustainability Planning for New York City’s Nature
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
City of Forests, City of Farms is a history of recent urban forestry and agriculture policy and programs in New York City. Centered on the 2007 initiative PlaNYC, this account tracks the development of policies that increased sustainability efforts in the city and dedicated more than $400 million...
by Susan S. Fainstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Yet over the past three decades the ideological triumph of neoliberalism has caused the allocation of spatial, political, economic, and financial resources to favor...