University Of Pittsburgh Press imprint: 402 books
On the End of Privacy
Dissolving Boundaries in a Screen-Centric World
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
In preparation for this book, and to better understand our screen-based, digital world, Miller only accessed information online for seven years.
On the End of Privacy explores how literacy is transformed by online technology that lets us instantly publish anything that we can see or hear. Miller examines...
by Beth Bosworth
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
From “The Eight Rhetorical Mode”
Later he asked, “Would you like to go for a hike sometime?” and two trains of thought left the station: He means to get to know me and we might leave the city together and it’s been a long time since I climbed a mountain. That train chugged into a wider brighter...
by Robin Becker
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Appearance and disguise—in a Costa Rican rainforest, a West Village repair shop, or an intimate relationship—reveal the turbulence that undergirds daily life, as families and places undergo change. In "Elegy for the Norther Flying Squirrel" and "Divers," Becker takes up the...
The Foundations of Scientific Inference
50th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
After its publication in 1967, The Foundations of Scientific Inference taught a generation of students and researchers about the problem of induction, the interpretation of probability, and confirmation theory. Fifty years later, Wesley C. Salmon’s book remains one of the clearest introductions...
Greetings, Pushkin!
Stalinist Cultural Politics and the Russian National Bard
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2016
In 1937, the Soviet Union mounted a national celebration commemorating the centenary of poet Alexander Pushkin’s death. Though already a beloved national literary figure, the scale and feverish pitch of the Pushkin festival was unprecedented. Greetings, Pushkin! presents the first in-depth study...
Chica Lit
Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Winner, 2016 ALA-Choice Outstanding Academic Title
In Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century, Tace Hedrick illuminates how discourses of Americanization, ethnicity, gender, class, and commodification shape the genre of “chica lit,” popular fiction...
Foundations of a Free Society
Reflections on Ayn Rand's Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
***Foundations of a Free Society***brings together some of the most knowledgeable Ayn Rand scholars and proponents of her philosophy, as well as notable critics, putting them in conversation with other intellectuals who also see themselves as defenders of capitalism and individual liberty. United...
Strategic Frames
Europe, Russia, and Minority Inclusion in Estonia and Latvia
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Strategic Frames analyzes minority policies in Estonia and Latvia following their independence from the Soviet Union. It weighs the powerful influence of both Europe and Russia on their policy choices, and how this intersected with the costs and benefits of policy changes for the politicians in each...
Nationalism in Central Asia
A Biography of the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan Boundary
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Nick Megoran explores the process of building independent nation-states in post-Soviet Central Asia through the lens of the disputed border territory between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. In his rich "biography" of the boundary, he employs a combination of political, cultural, historical, ethnographic,...
The Life Organic
The Theoretical Biology Club and the Roots of Epigenetics
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
As scientists debated the nature of life in the nineteenth century, two theories predominated: vitalism, which suggested that living things contained a “vital spark,” and mechanism, the idea that animals and humans differed from nonliving things only in their degree of complexity. Erik Peterson...
Reframing the Subject
Postwar Instructional Film and Class-Conscious Literacies
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
“Mental hygiene” films developed for classroom use touted vigilance, correct behavior, morality, and model citizenship. They also became powerful tools for teaching literacy skills and literacy-based behaviors to young people following the Second World War.
In this study, Kelly Ritter offers an...
by George Bilgere
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
In Imperial*,* George Bilgere’s sixth collection of poetry, he continues his exploration of the beauties, mysteries, and absurdities of being middle-aged and middle-class in mid-America. In poems that range from the Cold War anxieties of the 1950s to the perils and predicaments of an aging Boomer...
by George Bilgere
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
In Blood Pages George Bilgere continues his exploration of the joys and absurdities of being middle-aged and middle-class in the Midwest. OK, maybe he’s a bit beyond middle-aged at this point, and his rueful awareness of this makes these poems even more darkly hilarious, more deeply aware of the...
High Water Mark
Prose Poems
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2004
Everyday mindreading, a house full of Buddhas, and the papaya scent of the soul. An interview with Custer at a place of his choosing, “probably a steakhouse.” The ability of dogs to smell the uncool.
Hitler's barber imagines what might have been if only he'd leaned his weight into the razor....