How Linear Perspective Shaped Policies in the Western World
Philipp Lepenies
A brilliant meditation on how the invention of linear perspective in art helped shape our perspectives on the developing world
214 pages
| 6 x 9
| 4 figures, 18 halftones
Howard Pyle, N. C. Wyeth, and Andrew Wyeth
W. Barksdale Maynard
258 pages
| 5.5 x 8.5
| 75 figures, 2 maps
A Survey of French Citizens of Maghrebin, African, and Turkish Origin
Sylvain Brouard and Vincent Tiberj
Shedding new light on integration and citizenship in France to reveal the ways in which immigrants do-and do not-share the attitudes of the majority population
152 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 38 tables, 6 figures
Universalist Aspirations in Modernist Literature and Art
Audrey Wu Clark
Examining early Asian American writers and artists as modernists
248 pages
| 6 x 9
| 10 figures
Civic Engagement, Contested Issues, and Emerging Identities
James S. Lai
Examines how social media has changed the way Asian Americans participate in politics
224 pages
| 6 x 9
| 10 tables, 8 figures, 11 halftones
An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context
Elaine H. Kim
Focuses on the experience of Asians in America from the immigrants of the 1840s to the present
363 pages
William Wei
The first history and analysis of the Asian American Movement
376 pages
| 6 x 9
| 3 figures, 10 halftones
Bridging Institutions and Identities
Yen Le Espiritu
A case study of how cultural diversity among Asian Americans is subsumed for social and political advantage
238 pages
| 6 x 9
Edited by Josephine Lee, Don Eitel, and R.A. Shiomi
Asian American plays from the heartland
336 pages
| 6 x 9
| 7 halftones
Feminizing Genres and Neoliberal Belonging
Pamela Thoma
How Asian American women writers mobilize popular genres of literature to imagine new forms of citizenship in a neoliberal society
236 pages
| 6 x 9
| 2 halftones
How America is Failing Our Children and What We Can Do about It
Betty Bardige
Promoting the importance of pre-literacy skills for later learning
272 pages
| 6 x 9
| 8 figures, 3 halftones
A Philosophical Justification
Michael Martin
Logical reasons for being an atheist
254 pages
| 6 x 9
Race, Class, and Urban Expansion
Larry Keating
Troubling stories about private interests over public development in Atlanta
248 pages
| 6 x 9
| 15 tables, 7 maps, 7 figures
Enabling Sprawl through Policy and Planning
Carlton Wade Basmajian
How metropolitan Atlanta’s regional planning groups accelerated the sprawl they were trying to control
288 pages
| 7 x 10
| 32 color photos
Basketball and the Age of Obama
Alexander Wolff
The influence Barack Obama has had on basketball and vice versa, in essays and photographs
192 pages
| 10 x 8
| 108 color photos, 22 halftones