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Stalin’s BarberA NovelBy Paul M. Levitt, professor of EnglishTaylor Trade PublishingAvraham Bahar leaves debt-ridden and depressed Albania to seek a better life in, ironically, Stalinist Russia. A professional barber, he curries favor with the

Written by Liliane Louvel, professor emeritus at the University of Poitiers; Edited by Karen Jacobs, associate professor of English at ����������; Translated by Laurence Petit, Université Paul Valéry-MonpellierAshgate“Poetics of the Iconotext” makes

By Heimrad BäckerTranslated by Vincent Kling, professor of German and comparative literature at La Salle University in Philadelphia; and Patrick Greaney, assistant professor of German and comparative literature at ����������-BoulderDalkey Archive Press‘

Poems by Julie Carr, assistant professor of EnglishCoffee House PressSet to the music of rain, these shattered elegies seek communion in the ethereal place between birth and death.In the wake of a mother’s battle with Alzheimer’s and a child’s

Unusual Answers to the Usual QuestionsDavid Boonin, professor of philosophyCambridge University PressIn this book, philosopher David Boonin attempts to answer the moral questions raised by five important and widely contested racial practices: slave

It seems, at first blush, to be something of a no-brainer: strengthening protections on American intellectual property rights (or IPRs) — on everything from drugs to music to technology — would be a boon to the national economy.After all, we hardly

Thomas Andrews has a knack for framing American history unconventionally. In his award-winning book “Killing for Coal,” Andrews traced the central role of coal in Colorado’s economic growth, environmental change and social conflict. Now he’s turning

Part 1 of the Bunnyhead ChroniclesBy Stephen Graham Jones, professor of EnglishTrapdoor BooksThere are borders, and then there are borders. Between right and wrong. Between Texas and Mexico. The first is a joke to Dodd Raines, the second a payday.

A Legal and Political History (1774-1950)By Mithi Mukherjee, associate professor of historyOxford University PressThis pioneering research offers a sweeping new interpretation of the complex and seemingly contradictory nature of Indian democracy and

Jesuit Science in Spanish South America, 1570-1810By Andres I. Prieto, assistant professor of Spanish and PortugueseVanderbuilt University Press“Missionary Scientists” explores the scientific activities of Jesuit missionaries in colonial Spanish