More than a century passed after Johann Sebastian Bach's death in 1750 before his music found an audience in the United States. Volume Five in the Bach Perspectives series tracks the composer's reputation in America from obscure artist to a cultural mainstay whose music has spread to all parts of the country.Barbara Owen surveys Bach's early reception in America. Matthew Dirst focuses on John Sullivan Dwight's role in advocating Bach's work. Michael Broyles considers Bach'...

This book addresses topics related to the impact of invasive species including biosecurity, demographics, species diversity and food security. It is meant for researchers, upper-level students, and policy makers and provides a factual basis for the underlying science and a discussion of that information with respect to current and future impacts and possible solutions. This book explores the nexus of climate change and biological invasions, resulting impacts (biological and economic) and a...

Few concepts are as central to understanding the modern world as borders, and the now-thriving field of border studies has already produced a substantial literature analyzing their legal, ideological, geographical, and historical aspects. Such studies have hardly exhausted the subject’s conceptual fertility, however, as this pioneering collection on the aesthetics of borders demonstrates. Organized around six key ideas—ecology, imaginary, in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting—...

Over the last twenty-five years, Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff have developed a groundbreaking interpretation of Marxian theory generally and of Marxian economics in particular. This book brings together their key contributions and underscores their different interpretations.In facing and trying to resolve contradictions and lapses within Marxism, the authors have confronted the basic incompatibilities among the dominant modern versions of Marxian theory, and the fact that Marx...

This first volume of Music in Black American Life collects research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and the Black Music Research Journal, and in the University of Illinois Press's acclaimed book series Music in American Life. In these selections, experts from a cross-section of disciplines engage with fundamental issues in ways that changed our perceptions of Black music. The topics includes the culturally and musically comple...

Two kingdoms in perpetual conflict... A magical artifact with untold powers...Twenty years ago, the kings of Kallisor and Hathreneir agreed to a grand battle to end the centuries-long war between their kingdoms. The battle raged for days, until the Kallisorian king broke the code of combat to turn the tide. His plan nearly succeeded, but for a Hathren mage who united the Red Jade, a broken relic thought to restore the imbalance of magic throughout the land. His success was...

Two kingdoms in perpetual conflict...A magical artifact with untold powers...Twenty years ago, the kings of Kallisor and Hathreneir agreed to a grand battle to end the centuries-long war between their kingdoms. The battle raged for days, until the Kallisorian king broke the code of combat to turn the tide. His plan nearly succeeded, but for a Hathren mage who united the Red Jade, a broken relic thought to restore the imbalance of magic throughout the land. His success was s...

Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind a unique landscape in the Lower Athabasca Basin, one that made deposits of bitumen available for surface mining. Less well known is the discovery that this flood also produced an environment that supported perhaps the most intensive use of boreal fo...

Covering more than 600 disease and condition topics, Rosen & Barkin's 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult, 7th Edition, by Drs. Jeffrey J. Schaider, Roger M. Barkin, Stephen R. Hayden, Richard E. Wolfe, Adam Z. Barkin, Phillip Shayne, Amanda L. Doodlesack, Michael E. Nelson, and Erik K. Nordquist, is a reliable, go-to resource designed for today’s busy emergency department. Now fully revised, it provides up-to-date, evidence-based practice guidelines to help you make fast, accurate decisio...

Discover the deep cultural roots of Southern cuisine through archaeology.Understanding and explaining societal rules surrounding food and foodways have been the foci of anthropological studies since the early days of the discipline. Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink: Foodways Archaeology in the American Southeast, however, is the first collection devoted exclusively to southeastern foodways analyzed through archaeological perspectives. These essays...

An up-to-date reference book on phylogenetic methods and applications for evolutionary biologistsThe increasingly widespread availability of genomic data is transforming how biologists estimate evolutionary relationships among organisms and broadening the range of questions that researchers can test in a phylogenetic framework. Species Tree Inference brings together many of today’s leading scholars in the field to provide an incisive guide to the latest pr...

Central Park Love Song is both an intimate portrait and meticulous research of America’s first great public park and the most visited site in New York City. Beginning with the narrator and his dog wandering the battered but still beautiful park in the late 1970s, readers learn why the park is so large on an island so small, why it grows in the center of Manhattan, and what has been lost to the needs of an ever-changing city. These and other stories weave through the narrative as t...