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Latin American Journalists Who Endure Grave Danger to Witness and Report Their Truth

Investigates the Ways World's Fairs Expressed and Provoked Cold War Culture

Explores Public-Interest Science as a Potential Alternative to Commodification

The 318 letters in this volume reveal a great deal about Tyndall's personality, the development of his career, and his role in attempting to better establish science as a respectable and professional enterprise.

The Crucial Role Urban Spaces Played in the Production of Scientific Knowledge in Dublin

Evaluating the Complexity Principle for Scholarship in the History of Science and ReligionEvaluating the Complexity Principle for Scholarship in the History of Science and Religion

Examines the Intersection of Energy Policy and Environmental Regulation after the 1973 OAPEC Oil Embargo

Despite prolific contributions to consumer and medical technology, solid state physics garnered much less professional prestige and public attention than nuclear and particle physics. Solid State Insurrection argues that solid state physics was nonetheless essential to securing the vast social, political, and financial capital Cold War physics enjoyed.

The Debut of a Masterful Short Story Writer, Winner of the 2018 Drue Heinz Prize for Literature, and a Library Journal Best Book of 2018

In 1936, life on the road means sleeping on the bus or in hotels for blacks only. After finishing her tour with Nobel Sissel's orchestra, nineteen year-old Lena Horne is walking the last few blocks to her father's hotel in Pittsburgh's Hill District when she meets a Lebanese American girl, Marie David. Their chance meeting sparks a relationship that will intertwine their lives forever.

Cuban Studies is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in English and Spanish and a large book review section. Cuban Studies 49 includes dossiers on gender and feminism, economy, and history of education.

A Renowned Pittsburgh-Based Muralist Reflects on His 50-Year Career

An Intimate Expression of a Poet's Grief

Winner of the 2018 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

The definitive biography of Russia's first Tsar and one of its most infamous rulers.

Winner of the 2018 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. Judge: Ross Gay.

A new collection from the award winning poet Nathalie Handal, whose work includes The Republics, Poet in Andalucia, and Love and Strange Horses.

Addresses Women's Rhetorical Relationship to Work

The Development of a Distinctive Public Science in Nineteenth-Century Australia

The history of Detroit through an environmental lens.

Part Pop-Thriller, Part Queer Rage, Part Mourning

Teetering Between Joy and Despair, Faith and Doubt, and the Disconnect Between Lived Experience and the Written Word

Celebrated Pittsburgh Historians Document the City's Development Over the Last Two Centuries

Poems that Consider the Disappearance of Language in an Age of Digital Communication

Examines Tough on Crime Rhetoric and Policies in Latin America

The Cosmopolitan and Practical Science of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Istanbul

New and Collected Essays on the Idea of Latin America by John Beverley

Grace Kennan Warnecke, daughter of famed US diplomat and historian George F. Kennan, offers a telling memoir of her father and her family life lived throughout the tumultuous Cold War era and beyond. She presents an insider's perspective on important events during the twentieth century, and keenly recounts life as an American living in the Soviet Union at a time of great political uncertainty.

The Rise, Fall, and Potential Revival of Post-Industrial Rust Belt Cities, with a Focus on Cleveland, Ohio

Performance Art as a Source of Historical Truth in Mexico