In 2007, the Watson Affair - the worldwide character assassination and exclusion from public life of Dr. James Watson, the brilliant, Nobel Prize-winning scientist co-credited with the discovery of DNA - shocked the global public in an early episode of what would come to be called "cancel culture." Watson was as an early and very public victim of ......
Bridging Texts: Translation and Literary Studies in Dialogue is an insightful examination of the relationship between translation and literary studies. It discusses the linkage and mutual development of these two domains, commonly seen as separate. This book places translation as central to literary analysis, providing readers with new insights ......
A Cultural History of Alcoholics Anonymous 1935-1960
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) was founded in 1935. A great deal has been written about the addiction program and its membership, but little scholarship has been done on how it reflected the culture of the 1930s and Great Depression. Kevin Kaufmann's Rigorous Honesty investigates what AA can tell us about America in the 1930s. It begins by examining ......
Scholars devoted to analysis of Richard Wagner's operas and music-dramas have long noted his numerous comparisons between their characters and plots in his letters, essays, and recorded remarks. Yet no one has previously attempted to assess their implications for our systematic understanding of his art. Following Heise's allegorical interpretation ......
Writers Like Us is a poignant literary memoir by Barnaby Conrad, who had the good fortune to be mentored by Sinclair Lewis, the first American author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. In the spring of 1947, the 25 year-old Conrad was living in Santa Barbara, California, when he met Lewis. Conrad was struggling with his first novel, while ......
Nuclear Dialogues examines how a discursive process constructed the nuclear nonproliferation norm in international relations. Zoe I. Levornik's innovative new study traces the evolution of the norm from the dawn of the nuclear age to the present day and how it emerged and diffused through the actions of antinuclear activists and members of the ......
Narrative Medicine: New and Selected Essays, by Arthur Lazarus, MD, MBA, contains the thoughtful curation of the author's best work alongside new contributions. Ten vibrant essays comprising the first section serve as a bridge between reflection and the future of the medical profession. They focus on themes that have emerged since the Covid-19 ......
Escape from Cosmic Pessimism and the Quest for a Biocentric Ethic
A Kind of Pantheism: Escape from Cosmic Pessimism and the Quest for a Biocentric Ethic explores how such nineteenth-century transcendentalists as Henry David Thoreau and John Muir advanced a biocentric ethic that recognized the intrinsic worth of both plants and animals. This ethic required a pantheistic cosmology to be coherent, however. As ......
A Comparative History of the Conflicts in Kosovo, Abkhazia, and the Tskhinvali Region
Timeless Turmoil offers a comprehensive historical and comparative analysis of recent conflicts in Kosovo, Abkhazia, and the Tskhinvali region, examining their geopolitical dynamics from ancient times to the present. With a focus on post-Soviet transitions, noted Georgian international relations scholar Kakhaber Kalichava explores Russia's role in ......
