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The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster and the Future of Renewable Energy
(Cornell University Press, 2017)In a speech delivered in Japanese at Cornell University, Naoto Kan describes the harrowing days after a cataclysmic earthquake and tsunami led to the meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. ... -
The Hypocritical Hegemon: How the United States Shapes Global Rules against Tax Evasion and Avoidance
(Cornell University Press, 2020)In The Hypocritical Hegemon, Lukas Hakelberg takes a close look at how US domestic politics affects and determines the course of global tax policy. Through an examination of recent international efforts to crack down on ... -
The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages: Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction
(Cornell University Press, 1985)This book assess the relationship of literature to various other cultural forms in the Middle Ages. Jesse M. Gellrich uses the insights of such thinkers as Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, and Derrida to explore the ... -
The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages
(Cornell University Press, 1990)Ancient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective—the baffling, fragmented prospect confronting the maze-treader within, and the comprehensive ... -
The Institution of Criticism
(Cornell University Press, 1982)German radicals of the 1960s announced the death of literature. For them, literature both past and present, as well as conventional discussions of literary issues, had lost its meaning. In The Institution of Criticism, ... -
The Light of Knowledge: Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India
(Cornell University Press, 2013)Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons, science demonstrations, and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access ... -
The Medieval Saga
(Cornell University Press, 1982)Written in the thirteenth century, the Icelandic prose sagas, chronicling the lives of kings and commoners, give a dramatic account of the first century after the settlement of Iceland—the period from about 930 to 1050. ... -
The Oil Wars Myth: Petroleum and the Causes of International Conflict
(Cornell University Press, 2020)Do countries fight wars for oil? Given the resource's exceptional military and economic importance, most people assume that states will do anything to obtain it. Challenging this conventional wisdom, The Oil Wars Myth ... -
The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Medieval West
(Cornell University Press, 1991)According to an old story, a woman concealed her sex and ruled as pope for a few years in the ninth century. Pope Joan was not betrayed by a lover or discovered by an enemy; her downfall came when she went into labor during ... -
The Other Side of the Story: Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives
(Cornell University Press, 1989)According to Molly Hite, a number of influential contemporary women novelists—notably Jean Rhys, Doris Lessing, Alice Walker, and Margaret Atwood—attempt innovations in narrative form that are more radical in their ... -
The Power of Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World
(Cornell University Press, 2016)In The Power of Systems, Egle Rindzeviciute introduces readers to one of the best-kept secrets of the Cold War: the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, an international think tank established by the U.S. ... -
The Pseudo-Democrat's Dilemma: Why Election Observation Became an International Norm
(Cornell University Press, 2011)Why did election monitoring become an international norm? Why do pseudo-democrats—undemocratic leaders who present themselves as democratic—invite international observers, even when they are likely to be caught manipulating ... -
The Public and the Private in Aristotle's Political Philosophy
(Cornell University Press, 1992)Aristotle offers a conception of the private and its relationship to the public that suggests a remedy to the limitations of liberalism today, according to Judith A. Swanson. In this fresh and lucid interpretation of ... -
The Public Mapping Project: How Public Participation Can Revolutionize Redistricting
(Cornell University Press, 2018)The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal is an initiative of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Pennsylvania State University. It annually recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce ... -
The Scholar as Human: Research and Teaching for Public Impact
(Cornell University Press, 2020)The Scholar as Human brings together faculty from a wide range of disciplines—history; art; Africana, American, and Latinx studies; literature, law, performance and media arts, development sociology, anthropology, and ... -
The Self and Its Pleasures: Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject
(Cornell University Press, 1992)Why did France spawn the radical poststructuralist rejection of the humanist concept of ‘man’ as a rational, knowing subject? In this innovative cultural history, Carolyn J. Dean sheds light on the origins of poststructuralist ... -
The Sources of Anti-Slavery Constitutionalism in America, 1760-1848
(Cornell University Press, 1977)This ambitious book examines the constitutional and legal doctrines of the antislavery movement from the eve of the American Revolution to the Wilmot Proviso and the 1848 national elections. Relating political activity to ... -
The Supplement of Reading: Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice
(Cornell University Press, 1990)Tilottama Rajan illuminates a crisis of representation within romanticism, evident in the proliferation of stylistically and structurally unsettled literary texts that resist interpretation in terms of a unified meaning. ... -
The Taming of Evolution: The Persistence of Nonevolutionary Views in the Study of Humans
(Cornell University Press, 1984)The theory of evolution has clearly altered our views of the biological world, but in the study of human beings, evolutionary and preevolutionary views continue to coexist in a state of perpetual tension. The Taming of ... -
The Topography of Modernity: Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy
(Cornell University Press, 2013)Karl Philipp Moritz (d. 1793) was one of the most innovative writers of the late Enlightenment in Germany. A novelist, travel writer, editor, and teacher he is probably best known today for his autobiographical novel Anton ...
