A Guide to Their Identification, Ecology, and Conservation
Dangerous Snakes of Australia is an indispensable field guide to all 150 identified species of venomous elapid snakes on the continent. Through detailed species accounts, Mike Swan introduces readers to the physical features, habitat, behavior, and other distinctive characteristics of some of the most charismatic-and ......
Plato's Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, and Crito and Aristophanes' Clouds
Widely adopted for classroom use, this book offers translations of four major works of ancient Greek literature which treat the life and thought of Socrates, focusing particularly on his trial and defense (three dialogues by Plato: Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, and Crito) and on the charges against Socrates (Aristophanes' comedy Clouds). This ......
Punk Archives for the Present from CBGB to Gilman and Beyond
We're Having Much More Fun celebrates the ways punks have built and documented their own misfit collectives since the mid-1970s, assembling alternative worlds of riotous music, art, fashion, and writing. Judith Peraino and Tom McEnaney dive into these alternative depictions, ranging across the United States and over multiple generations, ......
Beyond the Elite focuses on the everyday social history of Jews in medieval northern and central Europe using four interpretive lenses: people, space, objects, and rituals. Contributors to this innovative volume discuss aspects of daily life through which non-elite Jews interacted with their Christian neighbors, while at the same time creating and ......
Beyond the Elite focuses on the everyday social history of Jews in medieval northern and central Europe using four interpretive lenses: people, space, objects, and rituals. Contributors to this innovative volume discuss aspects of daily life through which non-elite Jews interacted with their Christian neighbors, while at the same time creating and ......
Modern Japan and the Possibility of Reading Otherwise
Critical Failures revisits the overlooked messiness at the heart of Japan's early experiments with modern criticism. In the Meiji era, young intellectuals posited that mastering the art of critical reading-called hihyo-was essential for Japan's advancement on the world stage. Yet, while they made concerted efforts to theorize hihyo and proposed ......
Modern Japan and the Possibility of Reading Otherwise
Critical Failures revisits the overlooked messiness at the heart of Japan's early experiments with modern criticism. In the Meiji era, young intellectuals posited that mastering the art of critical reading-called hihyo-was essential for Japan's advancement on the world stage. Yet, while they made concerted efforts to theorize hihyo and proposed ......
