Social Sciences

The Origins of English Literary Modernism, 1870 – 1914

Author: 

Tague, Gregory, Editor

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Professor of English, St.Francis College, NY, author of Ethos and Behavior: The English Novel from Jane Austen to Thomas Hardy (Bethesda, 2005)

The aim of this work is to focus on the non-dramatic works of the early period of modernism in England with an emphasis on the origins and development of key writers and poets. Other such studies date to the mid1980s (Michael Levenson, Sanford Schwartz, Stan Smith, e.g.) and tend to lean heavily toward intellectual history or poetics.

Market: 
Origins of Modernism, English Literary Studies 19th and 20th c, English Novel, Poets/Poetry late 19thand early 20th century
Release Date: 
10/2008
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-48-5/ 193314648-6
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
364
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

The Oral Traditions in ILE –IFE: The Yoruba People and Their Book of Enlightenment

Author: 

Ogunyemi, Yemi D.

Credentials: 

Ph.D. African Literatures, Debrecen University, Ph.D Political Science, Clayton University, author of LITERATURES OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA (2004)

This research monograph discusses the understudied and often misunderstood aspects of West African culture and religion especially that of the Yoruba people and their Book of Enlightenment (Ife-Ifa) together with its metaphysical importance to the Yoruba as a source of philosophy, religion and literature.

Market: 
Yoruba/Nigerian Studies, West African Studies, Religion in West Africa, African Literatures, African Diasporic Literature, African Autochthonic Theologies, Afro-American traditional religion
Release Date: 
09/2009
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-65-2 / 1933146-65-6
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
184
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Origin of Culture

Author: 

Marsland, Amy and Marsland, William B.

Credentials: 

Ph.D; Cultural Anthropology

Drawing on the work of Levi-Strauss, Malinowski, Dumezil, Van Gennep, Eliade and many others, Dr. Marsland proposes a dual/triune structure to early religion--a structure which appears to be worldwide.

Market: 
Cultural Anthropology, Religion, Art History, History of Philosophy
Release Date: 
02/2009
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-47-8 / 193314647-8
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
186
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Depression and Philosophy

Author: 

Redeker, Robert, Translated from French by Professor Philip Beitchman, NYU

Credentials: 

Ph.D; National Centre for Research (Paris);noted French philosopher and controversialist

This work is, in the words of Dr Norman Freed, a “rich picture of an empty landscape, the depression that is to be engaged to maximally avoid it and its ramifications.” This work explores the philosophical aspects of the plague of depression found throughout the modern world.

Market: 
Philosophy, Psychiatry, Medical Sociology, Cultural Studies, French Intellectual History, French Philosophy,20thC.,French Studies
Release Date: 
10/2008
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-52-4
Price: 
$64.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
204
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Living Anarchy: Theory and Practice in Anarchist Movements

Author: 

Shantz, Jeff

Credentials: 

Ph.D York University (Ontario)Sociology; Kwantlen University College

Anarchism stands as one of the the most vital social movements of the twentieth century. Yet the lack, and growing, contemporary movement remain obscured. Lost in recent accounts are the creative and constructive practices undertaken daily by anarchist organizers seeking a world free from violence, oppression and exploitation.

Market: 
Politics, Sociology/Social Movements, Social Analysis, Social Relations, Political Economy, Community Organization
Release Date: 
06/2009
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-53-9 /193314653-2
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
230
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Wagner and the French Muse: Music, Society, and Nation in Modern France

Author: 

du Quenoy, Paul, Ph.D.

Credentials: 

Paul du Quenoy, Ph.D, Georgetown University; AUB

This research monograph studies and reinterprets the works and ideas of Richard Wagner that have had such a profound influence on the artistic and intellectual life of France. His Romanticism influenced the French symbolists so greatly that they named their major journal La Revue Wagnerians. His musical themes, dramatic structures and philosophical tropes recurred in the works of almost every major French composer before World war One. Massenet was so devoted that he earned the sobriquet "Madamoiselle Wagner".

Market: 
Music history 19th-20th c, French history and culture: Modernism 19th -20th c,Wagner
Release Date: 
4/2006
ISBN: 
Cloth: 9781930901803 / 1-930901-80-1
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Art Matters: The Art of Knowledge/The Knowledge of Art

Author: 

Koenig, Bernard

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Fanshawe College,Canada

ART MATTERS is a clear and comprehensive overview of art criticism as it relates to both the value of art and the aesthetics of art. The author offers a new perspective on how science, philosophy and art overlap each other, the author argues that art can give us knowledge of our world and our place in it the same way that science or philosophy do (per se Deleuze or Kristeva).

Market: 
Aesthetics, Art Sociology of Art,, Philosophy, Visual Culture, Cultural Studies, Media
Release Date: 
12/2008
ISBN: 
Paper: 978-1-933146-58-4 / 193314658-3
Price: 
$49.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
292
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
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