Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
Chaos Bound
Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
N. Katherine Hayles here investigates parallels between contemporary literature and critical theory and the science of chaos. She finds in both scientific and literary discourse new interpretations of chaos, which is seen no longer as disorder but as a locus of maximum information and complexity....
Clarissa's Ciphers
Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex,’ Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic female victim. In Clarissa’s Ciphers, Terry Castle delineates the ways in which, in a world where only voice carries authority, Clarissa is repeatedly silenced, both metaphorically...
by Kathryn Hendley
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Everyday Law in Russia challenges the prevailing common wisdom that Russians cannot rely on their law and that Russian courts are hopelessly politicized and corrupt. While acknowledging the persistence of verdicts dictated by the Kremlin in politically charged cases, Kathryn Hendley explores how ordinary...
The Cosmic Web
Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
From the central concept of the field—which depicts the world as a mutually interactive whole, with each part connected to every other part by an underlying field— have come models as diverse as quantum mathematics and Saussure’s theory of language. In The Cosmic Web, N. Katherine Hayles seeks...
Smartups
Lessons from Rob Ryan's Entrepreneur America Boot Camp for Start-Ups
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Building successful start-ups was never quite as easy as it seemed, and the changing economic climate has raised the stakes, reduced the margin of error. New entrepreneurs can't stumble into wealth on the power of half-formed ideas, or turn dreams into reality without doing a lot of homework. It's...
A Kingdom of Stargazers
Astrology and Authority in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Astrology in the Middle Ages was considered a branch of the magical arts, one informed by Jewish and Muslim scientific knowledge in Muslim Spain. As such it was deeply troubling to some Church authorities. Using the stars and planets to divine the future ran counter to the orthodox Christian notion...
Revolutionary Acts
Amateur Theater and the Soviet State, 1917-1938
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
During the Russian Revolution and Civil War, amateur theater groups sprang up in cities across the country. Workers, peasants, students, soldiers, and sailors provided entertainment ranging from improvisations to gymnastics and from propaganda sketches to the plays of Chekhov. In Revolutionary Acts,...
Hearing Allah’s Call
Preaching and Performance in Indonesian Islam
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Hearing Allah’s Call changes the way we think about Islamic communication. In the city of Bandung in Indonesia, sermons are not reserved for mosques and sites for Friday prayers. Muslim speakers are in demand for all kinds of events, from rites of passage to motivational speeches for companies and...
Women without Men
Single Mothers and Family Change in the New Russia
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Women without Men illuminates Russia's "quiet revolution" in family life through the lens of single motherhood. Drawing on extensive ethnographic and interview data, Jennifer Utrata focuses on the puzzle of how single motherhood—frequently seen as a social problem in other contexts—became taken...
Making All the Difference
Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Should a court order medical treatment for a severely disabled newborn in the face of the parents' refusal to authorize it? How does the law apply to a neighborhood that objects to a group home for developmentally disabled people? Does equality mean treating everyone the same, even if such treatment...
Base Politics
Democratic Change and the U.S. Military Overseas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to the Department of Defense's 2004 Base Structure Report, the United States officially maintains 860 overseas military installations and another 115 on noncontinental U.S. territories. Over the last fifteen years the Department of Defense has been moving from a few large-footprint bases...
Geology in the Nineteenth Century
Changing Views of a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
In this clear and comprehensive introduction to developments in geological theory during the nineteenth century, Mott T. Greene asserts that the standard accounts of nineteenth-century geology, which dwell on the work of Anglo-American scientists, have obscured the important contributions of Continental...
Fifty Early Medieval Things
Materials of Culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Fifty Early Medieval Things introduces readers to the material culture of late antique and early medieval Europe, north Africa, and western Asia. Ranging from Iran to Ireland and from Sweden to Tunisia, Deborah Deliyannis, Hendrik Dey, and Paolo Squatriti present fifty objects—artifacts, structures,...
Breaking the Ties That Bound
The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Russia’s Great Reforms of 1861 were sweeping social and legal changes that aimed to modernize the country. In the following decades, rapid industrialization and urbanization profoundly transformed Russia’s social, economic, and cultural landscape. Barbara Alpern Engel explores the personal, cultural,...