Edited by Jason Scott Robert, Ed Finn and David H. Guston
Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein" has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an intellectually and socially precocious eighteen-year-old…
Translated by Sylvain Gallais and Cynthia Hogue
"Fortino Sámano (The Overflowing of The Poem)," translated by Cynthia Hogue and Sylvain Gallais, with French on facing pages, is a collaborative work by the emerging French poet…
Edited by Undine Sellbach, Ron Broglio and Lynn Turner
This volume critically investigates current topics and disciplines that are affected, enriched or put into dispute by the burgeoning scholarship on animal studies. What new…
Edited by Arthur J. Russell, Richard G. Newhauser and Herbert L. Kessler
This volume examines afresh how the introduction of ancient and Arabic optical theories transformed 13th-century thinking about vision, how scientific learning came to be…
Winner of the Jacopone da Todi Poetry Book Prize, "The Short List of Certainties" explores the many ways that we are blind to the depths of our fears and to the heights of our…
"After the Afterlife" explores the zone between language and spirit. It is a book of inner and outer boundaries: of blockades, of tunnels, of wormholes. Where does our…
Norman Dubie is the author of 30 collections of poetry. He lives in Tempe, Arizona, where he works with young poets and novelists. This current title, which he thinks of as a…
"Doing Valuable Time" explores the human concern with expending our life's time well. We pursue what we take to be valuable, strive to live meaningfully, judge whether our present…
Standard philosophical explanations of the concept of knowledge invoke a personal goal of having true beliefs, and explain the other requirements for knowledge as indicating the…
In one convenient and coherently organized volume, 20 influential, but until now relatively inaccessible, articles are presented that form the backbone of Boyd and Richerson's path…