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Vulcan's Fury
Man Against the Volcano
Volcanic eruptions are the most spectacular displays in the natural world. They also present humanity with devastating environmental disasters. This enthralling book describes fifteen of the most remarkable volcanic eruptions...
Hans Christian Andersen
European Witness
A new account of the brilliant and prolific Danish writer whose works captivated readers across Europe Rarely does an American or European child grow up without an introduction to Hans Christian Andersen’s ...
Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts
This is the first revised, expanded, and updated edition of Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts since its third edition in 1990. It presents a scholarly exposition of English-language psychoanalytic terms and concepts...
Amazing Grace
An Anthology of Poems About Slavery, 1660–1810
Bringing together more than 400 poems and poetic excerpts on slavery by writers both famous and unknown, this landmark anthology charts the emergence of slavery in the collective consciousness of the English-speaking world.“The...
The Idea of the University
A Reexamination
The crisis in university education has been the subject of vigorous debate in recent years. In this eloquent and deeply personal book, a distinguished scholar reflects on the character and aims of the university,...
Poems and Prose from the Old English
In this restructured and greatly expanded version of Burton Raffel’s out-of-print classic, Poems from the Old English, Raffel and co-editor Alexandra H. Olsen place the oldest English writings in an entirely different...
Frail-Craft
Announcing the 2006 recipient of the prestigious Yale Younger Poets prize Jessica Fisher’s Frail-Craft is winner of the 2006 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition and judge Louise Glück’s...
George I. Sánchez
The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration
George I. Sánchez was a reformer, activist, and intellectual, and one of the most influential members of the "Mexican American Generation" (1930–1960). A professor of education at the University of Texas from the beginning of...
Ship of Death
A Voyage That Changed the Atlantic World
How a ship of British idealists sailed to Africa to end the slave trade but instead ignited a yellow fever pandemic It is no exaggeration to say that the Hankey, a small British ship that circled the...
Belonging and Genocide
Hitler's Community, 1918-1945
No one has ever posed a satisfactory explanation for the extreme inhumanity of the Holocaust. What enabled millions of Germans to perpetrate or condone the murder of the Jews? In this illuminating book, Thomas Kühne offers a...