# data[].attributes.subtitle
Experiments in New Media Aesthetics and Environmental Poetics

# data[].attributes.description
Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American Literature   An audacious, interdisciplinary study that combines the burgeoning fields of digital aesthetics and eco-criticism   In Animal, Vegetable, Digital, Elizabeth Swanstrom makes a confident and spirited argument for the use of digital art in support of ameliorating human engagement with the environment and suggests a four-part framework for analyzing and discussing such applications.   Through close readings of a panoply of texts, artworks, and cultural artifacts, Swanstrom demonstrates that the division popular culture has for decades observed between nature and technology is artificial. Not only is digital technology not necessarily a brick in the road to a dystopian future of environmental disaster, but digital art forms can be a revivifying bridge that returns people to a more immediate relationship to nature as well as their own embodied selves.   To analyze and understand the intersection of digital art and nature, Animal, Vegetable, Digital explores four aesthetic techniques: coding, collapsing, corresponding, and conserving. Coding denotes the way artists use operational computer code to blur distinctions between the reader and text, and, hence, the world. Inviting a fluid conception of the boundary between human and technology, collapsing voids simplistic assumptions about the human bodys innate perimeter. The process of translation between natural and human-readable signs that enables communication is described as corresponding. Conserving is the application of digital art by artists to democratize large- and small-scale preservation efforts.   A fascinating synthesis of literary criticism, communications and journalism, science and technology, and rhetoric that draws on such disparate phenomena as simulated environments, video games, and popular culture, Animal, Vegetable, Digital posits that partnerships between digital aesthetics and environmental criticism are possible that reconnect humankind to nature and reaffirm its kinship with other living and nonliving things.  

# data[].attributes.name
Archaeological Researches at Teotihuacan, Mexico

# data[].attributes.description
The field data and archaeological analysis of the first controlled excavations of the vast "City of the Gods" in central Mexico   In 1932, the Ethnographical Museum of Sweden sent an archaeological expedition to Mexico under the direction of Sigvald Linne to determine the full extent of this ancient Teotihuacan occupation and to collect exhibit-quality artifacts. Of an estimated 2,000-plus residential compounds at Teotihuacan, only 20 apartment-like structures were excavated at the time. Yet Linnes work revealed residential patterns that have been confirmed later in other locations.   Some of the curated objects from the Valley of Mexico and the adjacent state of Puebla are among the most rare and unique artifacts yet found. Another important aspect of this research was that, with the aid of the Museum of Natural History in Washington, Linnes team conducted ethnographic interviews with remnant native Mexican peoples whose culture had not been entirely destroyed by the Conquest, thereby collecting and preserving valuable information for later research.  

# data[].attributes.author
Sigvald Linné, Staffan Brunius, George L. Cowgill

# data[].attributes.description
Establishes a theoretical context for, and to elaborate the implications of, the claim that argument is a form of interaction in which two or more people maintain what they construe to be incompatible positions  The thesis of this book is that argument is not a kind of logic but a kind of communicationconversation based on disagreement. Claims about the epistemic and political effects of argument get their authority not from logic but from their fit with the facts about how communication works. A Theory of Communication thus offers a picture of communicationdistilled from elements of symbolic interactionism, personal construct theory, constructivism, and Barbara OKeefes provocative thinking about logics of message design. The picture of argument that emerges from this tapestry is startling, for it forces revisions in thinking about knowledge, rationality, freedom, fallacies, and the structure and content of the argumentation discipline.

# data[].attributes.description
Four centuries. One people. A legacy that shaped a nation. Osage traditional lands are located in mid-continental America encompassed by the present-day states of Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Major waterways through these lands and the defensible terrain of the Ozark range provided the tribe a distinct advantage in prehistoric and early historic times. A warlike people, the Osage long encroached on neighboring tribal lands, especially those of the Caddo to the southwest. Yet good natural boundaries and centuries of success in warfare afforded the tribe little advantage in attempts to forestall Euro-American westward expansion. Three major routes to the Westthe Missouri and Arkansas Rivers and the Continental Trailcrossed Osage land, so conflict with the newcomers was inevitable. Louis Burns draws on ancestral oral traditions and research in a broad body of literature to tell the story of the Osage people. He writes clearly and concisely, from the Osage perspective. First published in 1989 and for many years out of print, this revised edition is augmented by a new preface and maps. Because of its masterful compilation and synthesis of the known data, A History of the Osage People continues to be the best reference for information on an important American Indian people.  

# data[].attributes.subtitle
Life in Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw River Delta

# data[].attributes.description
Colorful and lively personal essays about life in the wilds of Alabamas Mobile-Tensaw River Delta   Among the Swamp People is the story of author Watt Keys discovery of the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta. The swamp consists of almost 260,000 acres of wetlands located just north of Mobile Bay. There he leases a habitable outcropping of land and constructs a primitive cabin from driftwood to serve as a private getaway. His story is one that chronicles the beauties of the deltas unparalleled natural wonders, the difficulties of survival within it, and an extraordinary community of charactersby turns generous and violent, gracious and paranoid, hilarious and recklesswho live, thrive, and perish there.   There is no way into the delta except by small boat. To most it would appear a maze of rivers and creeks between stunted swamp trees and mud. Key observes that there are few places where one can step out of a boat without sinking to the knees in muck the consistency of axle grease. It is the only place I know where gloom and beauty can coexist at such extremes. And it never occurred to me that a land seemingly so bleak could hide such beauty and adventure.   It also chronicles Keys maturation as a writer, from a twenty-five-year-old computer programmer with no formal training as a writer to a highly successful, award-winning writer of fiction for a young adult audience with three acclaimed novels published to date.   In learning to make a place for himself in the wild, as in learning to write, Keys story is one of hoping someoneeven if just myselfwould find value in my creations.  

# data[].attributes.subtitle
The Problem of Administrative Compassion

# data[].attributes.description
This classic study brings to bear the findings and principles of political science, sociology, psychology, and economics on various proposals for the solution of ills traditionally associated with governmental administration.

# data[].attributes.subtitle
Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War

# data[].attributes.description
Recounts how a frightened and war-weary household dealt with privations during the blockade imposed on the South by the federal navy  Parthenia Hague experienced the Civil War while employed as a schoolteacher on a plantation near Eufaula, Alabama. This book recounts how a frightened and war-weary household dealt with privations during the blockade imposed on the South by the federal navy. The memoir of Parthenia Hague is a detailed look at the ingenious industry and self-sufficiency employed by anxious citizens as the northern army closed in.

# data[].attributes.subtitle
Magic and Meaning in an Amazonian Society

# data[].attributes.description
Discover the spiritual threads that bind Amazonian life and culture. Tsewas Gift is a profound exploration of the cultural and spiritual life of the indigenous peoples of the Peruvian Amazon. Anthropologist Michael F. Brown delves into the concept of tsewa, a spiritual force central to the worldview of the Aguaruna people, revealing how this belief system shapes social relationships, moral obligations, and the exchange of gifts. Through vivid ethnographic detail and thoughtful analysis, Brown examines the intersection of ritual, reciprocity, and cosmology, offering readers a nuanced understanding of how indigenous communities navigate identity, power, and meaning in a rapidly changing world. This book is an essential resource for scholars of anthropology, religion, and Latin American studies, as well as anyone seeking insight into the complexities of cultural resilience and adaptation.

# data[].attributes.description
This work describes the profound changes to Yucatans society and economy following the 1982 debt crisis that prostrated Mexicos economy. The editors have assembled contributions from seasoned Yucatecologistshistorians, geographers, cultural students, and an economistto chart the accelerated change in Yucatan from a monocrop economy to a full beneficiary and victim of rampant globalization. 

# data[].attributes.author
Gilbert M. Joseph, Eric N. Baklanoff, Edward H. Moseley

# data[].attributes.subtitle
The Battle for Air Superiority Over Germany, 1942-1944

# data[].attributes.description
To Command the Sky is a scholarly record of the fight for domination of the skies over western Europe during World War II. It also explains the technical details of the tactics used to defeat the Luftwaffe. This book is important for serious students of World War II or military aviation.

# data[].attributes.author
Stephen L. McFarland, Wesley Phillips Newton

# data[].attributes.subtitle
Archaeological Syntheses from the Lower Mississippi Valley

# data[].attributes.description
An archaeologically rich region, in advance of impending disturbance This volume stands as a key general resource for archaeologists working in the region extending from Louisiana through Mississippi north to Missouri and Kentucky, and it represents an opportunity to influence for decades a large part of the archaeological work to take place in the Southeast. The book responds to a need for a comprehensive archaeological overview of the Lower Mississippi Valley that forms a portion of an interstate corridor spanning nine states that will run from southern Michigan to the Texas-Mexico border. The culturally sensitive Mississippi Delta is one of the richest archaeological areas in North America, and it is crucial that research designs be comprehensive, coordinated, and meet current preservation and future research needs. The authors are well-respected researchers from both within and outside the region with expertise in the full range of topics that comprise American archaeology. They examine matters of method and theory, the application of materials science, geophysics, and other high-tech tools in archaeology that provide for optimum data-recovery.   

# data[].attributes.author
John R Underwood, Hector Neff, Gayle J. Fritz, Robert C. Dunnell, Jay K. Johnson, Philip J. Carr, Amy L Young, Ian W. Brown, H. Edwin Jackson, S. Homes Hogue, James H Turner, Michael L Galaty, Carl P Lipo, Kevin L Bruce, Evan Peacock, Janet Rafferty

# data[].attributes.description
In 1733, General James Edward Oglethorpe officially established the colony of Georgia, and within three years had fortified the coast southward toward St. Augustine.  Although this region, originally known as the provinces of Guale and Mocama, had previously been under Spanish control for more than a century, territorial fighting had emptied the region of Spanish missionaries, soldiers, and their Indian allies.  Spanish officials maintained that the long history of Spanish authority over the territory guaranteed Spain the right to defy and repel the English intruders.  By 1739, with diplomatic negotiations failing and the potential for war imminent, King Philip V requested that Don Manuel de Montiano, Governor of Spanish Florida, provide him with every document from both governmental and ecclesiastical sources that would demonstrate prior Spanish presence and control over the region.  Original documents and translations were delivered within the year and safely filed for future use--then forgotten.  With the outbreak of open war six months earlier, the diplomatic utility of the documents had passed.  For over 250 years, the documents languished safely in the Archive of the Indies in Seville until recognized, recovered, translated, and published by John Worth.  Within this volume, Worth brings to light the history of the documents, provides complete translations and full explanations of their contents and a narrative exposition of the Spanish presence along the Atlantic coast never before fully understood.  David Hurst Thomas provides an introduction that places Worth's translations and his historical overview into the context of ongoing archaeological excavations on the Georgia coast.  With the publication of this volume, one of the least known chapters of Georgia history is finally examined in detail.

# data[].attributes.description
For centuries scholars, philosophers, and practitioners have attempted to explain just what constitutes comedy, and though no one has come close to a definitive explanation, each attempt highlights some distinct facet of the genrethe genre that Woody Allen has said eats at the children's table . . . even in the world of scholarship.  The essays gathered in Volume 16 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium illustrate well the range of material that falls under the heading "comedy" as it is played on stage.  Stanley Longman's essay on "The Commedia dell'Arte as the Quintessence of Comedy" introduces us to the inhabitants of "Commediatown," character types who are descendents of the Greeks and ancestors, it seems, of almost everyone who came after. Boris Senker, an eyewitness to Croatia's evolution from communism to democracy, reports on the all-too-real "Commedia" stereotypes that have found their way onto the stage in his homeland.  Other essays address the improvisational nature of "Commedia"; the roots of laughter and the expectations inherent in presenting "old schtick" to a new generation; comedic technique, verbal and physical, in Moliere; the use of the macabre to create humor in the "Theatre du Grand Guignol"; the story of Henry Fielding, the theatre practitioner most responsible for the British government's crackdown on subversive material, via the Licensing Act of 1737; Beckett's theatrical connections to the comedy theory of Henri Bergson; and do-it-yourself (DIY) comedyhappenings, situations, gatheringsas practiced in British stand-up comedy.  Volume 16 provides just a glimpse into the possibilities for comedy on the stage. If the past examples allow for extrapolation into the future, the position of comedy as a means of communicating problems and solutions for society's woes is remarkably sound.

# data[].attributes.author
Edward Bert Wallace, Stanley Vincent Longman, Biliana Stoytcheva-Horissian, Steven Dedalus Burch, Patrick Bynane, Diana Calderazzo, Broderick D. V. Chow, Luc Gilleman, Stanley V. Lungman, Christopher S. Morrison, Broderick D. V. Chow, Felicia J. Ruff, Boris Senker, Bihiana S. Horission, Jay Malarcher

# data[].attributes.description
The essays gathered together in Volume 15 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium investigate how, historically, the theatre has been perceived both as a source of moral anxiety and as an instrument of moral and social reform.     Essays consider, among other subjects, ethnographic depictions of the savage other in Buffalo Bills engagement at the Columbian Exposition of 1893; the so-called Moral Reform Melodrama in the nineteenth century; charity theatricals and the ways they negotiated standards of middle-class respectability; the figure of the courtesan as a barometer of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century moral and sexual discourse; Aphra Behns subversion of Restoration patriarchal sexual norms in The Feigned Courtesans; and the controversy surrounding one production of Tony Kushner Angels in America, during which officials at one of the nations more prominent liberal arts colleges attempted to censor the production, a chilling reminder that academic and artistic freedom cannot be taken for granted in todays polarized moral and political atmosphere.

# data[].attributes.author
Eileen Curley, John W. Frick, David Carlyon, James Fisher, Rachel Rusch, Leah Lowe, Roger Freeman, Steve Scott, M. Scott Phillips

# data[].attributes.description
A fascinating examination of the strategies and uses of air power in the First World War, Sky on Fire covers not only developments in military hardware and tactics but also how public policy and political considerations shaped the ways air power was deployed. Providing an excellent balance of data and statistics as well as human insights, Fredettes book is essential reading for readers interested in the air power, both historically and in contemporary conflicts.

# data[].attributes.description
A Copublication of the Mid-American Theatre Conference and The University of Alabama Press.  Theatre History Studies is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice. The conference encompasses the states of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. The purpose of the conference is to unite persons and organizations within the region with an interest in theatre and to promote the growth and development of all forms of theatre.  Rhona Justice-Malloy is Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Mississippi.

# data[].attributes.author
Theatre History Studies, Mary Trotter, David Krasner, Felicia Hardison Londré, Brian T. Carney, Dorothy Chansky, Mary Barile, Michael M. O'Hara, Karl Kippola, M. Kate Sinnett, Karin Magaldi, Kristin Leahey, Stacy Wolf, Stephen Harrick, Shauna Vey, Christina S. McMahon, Brian Leahy Doyle, Peter P. Reed, Vanessa G. Baker, Rhona Justice-Malloy

# data[].attributes.subtitle
Foreign Affairs and the Southern Sense of Self,1877-1950

# data[].attributes.description
In his study of the New South and foreign affairs, Tennant McWilliams raises a central question: why have southerners failed to develop a realistic attitude about U.S. relations with the rest of the world? He notes that throughout their history southerners have encountered failure, poverty, guilt, defeat, and ridicule and that their experiences seem at odds with the notions of invincibility that have fueled the flames of American idealism. Yet McWilliams points out that southerners have joined with northerners in accepting the ideas of a mission to extend the American way of life to people around the world. Thus, he asks, what happened between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the cold war that can help explain the failure of realism to dampen the crusading spirit in the South. American Historical Review

# data[].attributes.description
The eight case studies in this book -- each a synthesis of available knowledge about the origins of agriculture in a specific region of the globe -- enable scholars in diverse disciplines to examine humanity's transition to agricultural societies. Contributors include: Gary W. Crawford, Robin W. Dennell, and Jack R. Harlan.

# data[].attributes.author
Naomi F. Miller, Paul Minnis, Deborah M. Pearsall, Bruce D. Smith, Robin W. Dennell, Gary W. Crawford, Jack R. Harlan, Emily McClung de Tapia, Patty Jo Watson, C. Wesley Cowan

# data[].attributes.description
Theatre History Studies is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice. The conference encompasses the states of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. The purpose of the conference is to unite persons and organizations within the region with an interest in theatre and to promote the growth and development of all forms of theatre.

# data[].attributes.author
Jackson R. Theatre History Studies, Scott R. Irelan, Jackson R. Bryer, John C. Hall, William W. Demastes, Noreen Barnes-Mclain, Judith E Barlow, Anne Fletcher, Heather S. Nathans, Aaron D Anderson, Rosemarie K. Bank, David A. Crespy, Stephen Harrick, Anne Fliotsos, Lou Bellamy, Elin Diamond, Antonis Glytzouris, Margaret Knapp, Landis K. Magnuson, Francesca Marini, Tavia Nyong'o, Margaret Thornton, Phil Groeschel, Mark Cosdon, Weldon B Durham, Barbara Ozieblo, Tyler Smith, Don B Wilmeth, Kenneth Schlesinger, Rebecca Kastleman, Rhona Justice-Malloy

# data[].attributes.description
English translation of the second volume of Laurent Jouberts 1578 French work Erreurs Populaires  Joubert proposed to dispel folk remedies and folklore still relied on by doctors and care-givers in France. It also challenged medical theories and advice from classical Greek and Latin writers that French doctors followed uncritically. Gregory de Rochers skill as a translator brings this highly readable and very funny book to life. Many topics central to Jouberts thesis in the 1500s remain contemporary themes in the popular and scholarly literature of the 1980s.

# data[].attributes.author
Laurent Joubert, Gregory David de Rocher