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SHARING IN THE ACTION revisits the plots enacted in tragedies to reveal how they are significantly conditioned by the wider phenomenon of the choral performance. #TragedyPlots #TheatreStudies #DramaAnalysis Learn more here: ow.ly/eOMo50ZRUVN

PENELOPE AND HER MAIDS reconsiders the #Odyssey from Penelope's point of view. mily Shanahan investigates this characterization, and all of Penelope's decisions, in context, reading each one of her scenes diachronically. #OdysseyRetold #GreekMythology Learn more here: ow.ly/V2cG50ZSiYk

HEIDEGGER'S REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS shows how metaphysics, history, and political longing intertwine in Martin Heidegger's work and inspire contemporary anti-Western intellectual and political movements. Alexander S. Duff looks at Iranian revolutionary intellectuals, neo-Eurasianist ideologues in Russia, and other post-liberal movements and their turn to Heidegger's philosophy, which offers a vocabulary for radical civilizational alternatives that reject liberalism and humanism. #Heidegger #Metaphysics #RevolutionaryPolitics #AntiWestern Learn more here: ow.ly/1r3350ZO0TG

New guidelines for editing, reading, and interpreting Scholastic texts of the High Middle Ages This book highlights the interplay between vestigial orality and scribal culture in Scholastic texts of the High Middle Ages. Apart from Thomas Aquinas and a few others who exercised complete control over their texts, the surviving works of most medieval Scholastic masters – copied and recopied many times – retain traces of the oral settings in which they originated. This book presents hundreds of examples from texts spanning the entire High Middle Ages, showing editors and readers of Scholastic texts how to recognize and account for difficulties arising from the vestigial orality embedded in them, and how to recognize and interpret textual anomalies attributable to multi-stage copying following original lectures. Order this book here: ow.ly/kJOz50ZSikN

NEGOTIATING THE FUTURE focuses on US labor and the just transition. Fossil fuel workers are currently at risk for losing their jobs should the US curtail coal, natural gas and oil use. A just transition would support these workers and avoid imposing disproportionate shares of the costs of decarbonization on the poor, the working class, or people of color. While some unions are debating how a just low-carbon energy transition can be enacted, others are questioning whether a transition needs to take place at all. Diane Sicotte provides a detailed understanding of the role of labor in environmental change, beyond the "jobs vs. environment" framing. Negotiating the Future also contributes to ongoing debates in labor studies: about the best ways for labor unions to address conflicts between their members' long-term interests in environmental stability and their short-term material interests; how far solidarity should go when it means abetting obstacles to lowering carbon emissions, and how to ensure that the developing renewable energy industries enhance labor unions' power resources instead of diminishing them. Order this book here: ow.ly/VstX50ZSjmA

FLYING BROTHERS drops you into cockpits and crisis rooms across the Cold War: supersonic F-5s herding rebel "Tora-Toras" over Manila in 1989, F-86 Sabres firing the first Sidewinder missiles against MiG-17s above the Taiwan Strait in 1958, and AT-6s striking a mutinous warship on a river in downtown Bangkok in 1951. #ColdWarAviation #MilitaryFlightSim #FlyingBrothers Learn more here: ow.ly/5eQH50ZRUOg

In this new edition of GREEK MYTHOLOGY AND POETICS, Gregory Nagy revisits the relationship between myth and ritual in ancient Greek society. #GreekMythology #AncientGreece #MythAndRitual Learn more here: ow.ly/Zqnv50ZSi4y

PENELOPE AND HER MAIDS reconsiders the #Odyssey from Penelope's point of view. mily Shanahan investigates this characterization, and all of Penelope's decisions, in context, reading each one of her scenes diachronically. #OdysseyRetold #GreekMythology Learn more here: ow.ly/V2cG50ZSiYk

TALES FROM THE NETHERWORLD explores the theme of #katabasis, the descent to the underworld, in #Russian literature from its earliest secular texts—folktales—until the end of the New Economic Policy (1921–1928), when official dictates affected the subjects that writers might safely explore. #Folktales #RussianLiterature #LiteraryThemes Learn more here: ow.ly/Gp2G50ZRUpI

THE HELL OF HOLY WAR reads Jean de Joinville's famous account of King Louis IX and his Seventh Crusade as a powerful and unique representation of #war, #memory, and #loss during the Middle Ages. #HolyWar #KingLouisIX #SeventhCrusade Learn more here: cornellpress.cornell.edu/boo…

ECOLOGIES OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE AMERICAN WEST examines the medium's role in documenting, profiting from, and transforming ecosystems across its varied geographies. This book brings together a diverse range of scholars and artists to trace photography's roots in the earth and its entanglement with resource extraction and ecological rights. #AmericanWest #PhotographyEcology #EcologicalRights Learn more here: ow.ly/z7Wy50ZNZ7S

MASTERING THE BODY offers an innovative exploration of the intimate, bodily routines that shaped—and were shaped by—Roman society. From kitchens to chamber pots, F. Mira Green uncovers how eating, digesting, and excreting were not just biological necessities but deeply embedded social practices that reinforced hierarchies and power structures in Roman households. #AncientRome #RomanHistory #SocialPractices #RomanCulture Learn more here: ow.ly/AuoX50ZO5vm

SHARING IN THE ACTION revisits the plots enacted in tragedies to reveal how they are significantly conditioned by the wider phenomenon of the choral performance. #TragedyPlots #TheatreStudies #DramaAnalysis Learn more here: ow.ly/eOMo50ZRUVN

TALES FROM THE NETHERWORLD explores the theme of #katabasis, the descent to the underworld, in #Russian literature from its earliest secular texts—folktales—until the end of the New Economic Policy (1921–1928), when official dictates affected the subjects that writers might safely explore. #Folktales #RussianLiterature #LiteraryThemes Learn more here: ow.ly/Gp2G50ZRUpI

PETRI THOMAE QUAESTIONES DE FORMIS. Among the first attempts to explicate a Scotist natural philosophy is the Quaestiones de formis by Petrus Thomae. Like other works in this series on Peter's work, the De formis is dedicated to a single philosophical topic. Following an introductory question about the metaphysical aspect of form, the focus shifts to form as it functions in the process of change #MedievalPhilosophy #NaturalPhilosophy #DunsScotus Learn more here: ow.ly/WJmj50ZSkhe

FLYING BROTHERS drops you into cockpits and crisis rooms across the Cold War: supersonic F-5s herding rebel "Tora-Toras" over Manila in 1989, F-86 Sabres firing the first Sidewinder missiles against MiG-17s above the Taiwan Strait in 1958, and AT-6s striking a mutinous warship on a river in downtown Bangkok in 1951. #ColdWarAviation #MilitaryFlightSim #FlyingBrothers Learn more here: ow.ly/5eQH50ZRUOg

THE HELL OF HOLY WAR reads Jean de Joinville's famous account of King Louis IX and his Seventh Crusade as a powerful and unique representation of #war, #memory, and #loss during the Middle Ages. #HolyWar #KingLouisIX #SeventhCrusade Learn more here: cornellpress.cornell.edu/boo…

NEGOTIATING THE FUTURE focuses on US labor and the just transition. Diane Sicotte provides a detailed understanding of the role of labor in environmental change, beyond the "jobs vs. environment" framing. #LaborAndEnvironment #SustainableLabor Learn more here: ow.ly/VstX50ZSjmA

1966. The year 1966 saw the start of a decade of social and political upheaval in China. In these eleven stories by poet Wang Xiaoni, the horrors, confusion, and utter disruption of the Cultural Revolution are just beginning. #CulturalRevolution #ChineseHistory Learn more here: ow.ly/BFe150ZSjPP