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"Kinetic Cultures delivers on its promise to challenge conventional narratives of ballet music and choreography. Rachana Vajjhala explores a wealth of untapped archival sources and methods with captivating style and insight. Her richly textured study offers fresh, persuasive analyses of familiar belle époque works and sets a new standard for music and dance scholarship."--Jessie Fillerup, author of Magician of Sound: Ravel and the Aesthetics of Illusion

"Ibrahim Nasrallah has been a stellar producer of literature, particularly in relation to Palestine. Nora Parr, through this sophisticated and engaging study, shows the multifaceted nature of his literary project and his commitment to the literary construction of Palestinian nationhood. Parr's study is unparalleled in its systematic and deeply informed treatment of Nasrallah's fictional world. It should serve as an excellent guide to anyone interested in Arabic literature and Palestinian studies more specifically. This book is not only an insightful study of Nasrallah's literary output, but it also opens a vista on the enduring genius of the Palestinian novel and Nasrallah's place in its luminous journey."--Atef Alshaer, author of Poetry and Politics in the Modern Arab World "A compelling, sophisticated, and long overdue analysis of the works of the prolific but hitherto neglected Palestinian author Ibrahim Nasrallah. An outstanding achievement. Parr's exploration of Nasrallah's works offers the opportunity to reconsider and reinterpret many of the most dominant discourses and motifs in Palestinian culture."--Joseph R. Farag, Assistant Professor of Modern Arab Studies, University of Minnesota "Novel Palestine is a timely and significant intervention in our understanding of the Palestinian novel and identity. In her interrogation of the concept of the 'nation through the works of Ibrahim Nasrallah, ' Parr offers critical reflections on Nasrallah and his innovative contributions to the Palestinian novel and on the evolving Palestinian community and belonging at the turn of the twenty-first century. It is a must read for everyone interested in Palestine, identity, and literature."--Wen-chin Ouyang, author of Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel "Novel Palestine stakes a claim about the relation between Palestinian literary writing and the ways in which this writing figures the experience of being Palestinian in excess of the terms of the settler state and its linear, developmental, narrative, and critical forms. Parr shows that literature enables a thinking of Palestinian life beyond these terms, and in this she powerfully suggests the relevancy of language and aesthetic form in the ongoing resistance to settler colonization, the regime of the modern carceral state, and the modes of thought and life these sustain."--Jeffrey Sacks, Associate Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature/Arabic, University of California, Riverside "In her pioneering study of the curiously neglected Ibrahim Nasrallah, Parr shows how his epic Palestine Project expands the notion of a literary series to re-image not only Palestine, but the notion of the nation itself. A welcome demonstration of the power of writing to redefine the political domain."--Lyndsey Stonebridge, author of We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience "Parr's Novel Palestine is a welcome critical intervention and vitally important addition to Palestinian literary studies in its focus on the one of the foremost writers of the Palestinian epic, Ibrahim Nasrallah. It can be situated within a tradition of literary criticism charted by the leading efforts of authors such as Mary Layoun and Barbara Harlow."--Najat Rahman, author of In the Wake of the Poetic: Palestinian Artists after Darwish

"Breaks new ground in introducing analytic induction as an approach distinct from qualitative comparative analysis. Charles Ragin's writing is among the clearest, most accessible, and engaging that I know."--Peer C. Fiss, Jill and Frank Fertitta Chair in Business Administration and Professor of Management and Organization, University of Southern California "At a time when methodological debates are becoming increasingly mathematical, this intervention is both refreshingly nontechnical and unusually helpful for qualitative researchers in sociology and political science. Because of its clarity, brevity, and usability, qualitative researchers in the social sciences are going to want a copy of this book."--James Mahoney, Gordon Fulcher Professor in Decision-Making and Professor of Sociology and Political Science, Northwestern University

"In this provocative and deeply humane new book, sociologist Michaela Soyer dissects the stark differences in punishment systems between the United States and Germany through the experiences of incarcerated young men. The Price of Freedom deftly shows the relation between punishment, the welfare state, and diversity--and the difficult trade-offs ahead."--François Bonnet, author of The Upper Limit: How Low-Wage Work Defines Punishment and Welfare "In both Germany and the United States, racialized young men are far more likely to be imprisoned than their white peers--yet the societal responses to this fact have been profoundly different. Drawing on sensitive interviews and nuanced comparative ethnography, Soyer shows how these young men understand their place in their respective societies, the forces that led to their incarceration, and where they might go in the future. She thus reveals the hidden goals, understandings, and contradictions that shape both systems. The Price of Freedom sheds new light on the problem of mass incarceration while pointing to what the German and American justice systems might learn from each other."--Philip Kasinitz, coeditor of Growing Up Muslim in Europe and the United States "This innovative book breaks through the dulling sense of familiarity that focusing on only one society so easily engenders. By comparing young men's experiences with incarceration in Germany and the United States, Soyer invites us to view both criminal justice systems with fresh eyes and reveals the distinct ways in which marginalization and incarceration interact. American and German scholars alike have much to learn from Soyer's ambitious research."--Jan Doering, author of Us versus Them: Race, Crime, and Gentrification in Chicago Neighborhoods "In The Price of Freedom, Soyer provides a unique comparative analysis of incarceration in the United States and Germany. Her rich, in-depth qualitative analysis allows her to develop nuanced insights into processes of racial and ethnic marginalization and criminalization in the two countries and to develop explanations for what each country can learn from the other in terms of their treatment of racial and ethnic minorities. Soyer's book is an important read for social scientists and policymakers concerned with social inequality and incarceration."--Danielle Raudenbush, author of Health Care Off the Books: Poverty, Illness, and Strategies for Survival in Urban America "The Price of Freedom offers a much-needed comparative study of incarceration in two very different contexts, contrasting the quintessential mass incarceration nation of the United States with the more lenient German penal context. Through comparative ethnography and interviews, Soyer documents how such different contexts both produce prisons filled with the socially marginalized, and she elegantly links the conditions that bring marginalized men into prison to culturally conditioned explanations for their pathways to crime and imprisonment. This rare comparative work allows readers to see the much-studied but extreme US context through a new lens while offering lessons on how men interpret their histories through their cultural context. This book has much to offer prison scholars as well as those more generally interested in poverty, social marginalization, and comparative social theory."--Sara Wakefield, coauthor of Children of the Prison Boom: Mass Incarceration and the Future of American Inequality

"Sounding the Indian Ocean adeptly bridges music studies and Indian Ocean scholarship, history and ethnography, to show how music composes and transgresses categories, genealogies, and geographies in Afro-Asiatic seascapes. With a focus on three keywords--music, sound, and listening--fourteen essays by a global range of scholars offer rich cameos of the agency of communities and individuals in mediating space and memory in, and through, sonic life-worlds."--Smriti Srinivas, coeditor of Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds "Evocative, wide-ranging, and fascinating, like the musics and communities it studies, Sounding the Indian Ocean makes a highly original contribution to Indian Ocean Studies and charts the way for many future paths of exploration."--Ronit Ricci, author of Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia "Sounding the Indian Ocean is a finely crafted voyage of discovery across a vast and relatively unexplored musical region, connecting distant geographies, temporalities, sacred practices, and everyday concerns. Drawing together an authoritative body of researchers, it pioneers a conversation about the role of sound and performance in rethinking transoceanic lateral networks and comparative cultural histories, securing the place of ethnomusicological scholarship in the reconstruction of one of the world's oldest long-distance trading arenas."--Angela Impey, author of Song Walking: Women, Music, and Environmental Justice in an African Borderland "This remarkable collection counters the inward-facing focus that has characterized most studies of South and Southeast Asian music and opens new pathways for thinking about the circulation of musical histories and forms in this region. It is undoubtedly the definitive, standard-bearing work on the deeply cosmopolitan and interconnected soundworlds of the Indian Ocean."--Davesh Soneji, author of Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India

"James Walvin's brilliant new book is more than a story about the fascinating legacy of a song written by an eighteenth-century English cleric that today has a unique status in American and indeed British life. It is also a story of cross-cultural translation and travel, of exploitation, adaptation, and commercial interests, and of the power of music-making in the service of humanistic freedom, regardless of faith, nation, or race."--Ben Carrington, author of Race, Sport and Politics: The Sporting Black Diaspora "A detailed and astonishing revelation of the forgotten history behind the seemingly familiar. Passionately written and meticulously researched."--David Olusoga, author of Black and British: A Short, Essential History "An illuminating history of the most resounding hymn in African American history. Born of the tortured soul of an English slaver, who found his faith and rejected slavery, 'Amazing Grace' became the soothing hymn that inspired millions. The enslaved cotton worker, the folk singer, the civil rights marcher, the gospel choir, the blues woman, and President Obama, all moved by the sweet sound of this beautiful, historic hymn."--Edward B. Rugemer, Professor of History and African American Studies, Yale University "This book tells the story of the Christian hymn 'Amazing Grace, ' from its creation by English former slave ship captain John Newton in 1772, through its popularization among performers and listeners in the United States, to its function today as a kind of anthem for healing in the US, Europe, and elsewhere in the world. The historical coverage as well as the range of subjects and musical scenes addressed is impressive."--Eric Porter, author of A People's History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport "A fun read that tracks 'Amazing Grace, ' a song that holds much meaningfulness across diverse swaths of society, across various genres and performance styles, and across the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries."--James Padilioni, author of To Ask Infinity Some Questions: San Martín de Porres and the Black Hagiographic Mysteries of Florida

"Beautifully organized through contrast and variation evocative of a musical composition, Fanfare for a City is a lively and engaging work of scholarship on music, urban space, and power. Jacek Blaszkiewicz convincingly traces how Baron Haussmann's individual taste in music shaped the tuning of Paris's urban design and policy, and conversely how Haussmannization had a lasting impact on musical spaces and tastes."--Aimée Boutin, author of City of Noise: Sound and Nineteenth-Century Paris "An important contribution to the literature on Baron Haussmann's famous reconfiguration of Paris during the Second Empire. Blaszkiewicz expertly maps musical life of the period onto the rapidly changing cityscape. In its move away from traditional methods and engagement with the burgeoning field of sound studies, this work offers a refreshing perspective on wider musical culture beyond the opera house, concert hall, and salon."--Steven Huebner, author of Les opéras de Verdi: Éléments d'un langage musico-dramatique "Fanfare for a City demonstrates in fascinating detail that the making of modern Paris in the nineteenth century was as much a matter of sound as of space. The book--highly readable, deeply informative--is a major contribution to a growing body of literature that recognizes sound as a fundamental cultural force."--Lawrence Kramer, author of Music and the Forms of Life "A sophisticated and rich exploration of the relationship between music and its urban environment, which sheds new light on little-studied musical phenomena, including street hawkers, as well as more familiar environments, such as world's fairs and cafés-concerts, all in the context of Haussmann's urban renewal project in Second Empire Paris."--Sarah Hibberd, author of French Grand Opera and the Historical Imagination "Deeply researched and engagingly written, Fanfare for a City has a great deal to teach us about the contested soundscapes of Second Empire Paris. A very impressive work."--Brian Hart, editor of The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume V: The Symphony in the Americas

Volume I is divided into two parts. Part B of volume I in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a translation of portions of chapter 3 and the complete chapter 4, devoted to pharmaceutical drugs for diseases. This volume is a continuation of volume I, part A. The first portion of chapter 3 is found in part A. The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (1518-1593). The culmination of a sixteen-hundred-year history of Chinese medical and pharmaceutical literature, it is considered the most important and comprehensive book ever written in the history of Chinese medicine and remains an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners. This nine-volume series reveals an almost two-millennia-long panorama of wide-ranging observations and sophisticated interpretations, ingenious manipulations, and practical applications of natural substances for the benefit of human health. Paul U. Unschuld's annotated translation of the Ben cao gang mu, presented here with the original Chinese text, opens a rare window into viewing the people and culture of China's past.

"A sophisticated analysis of late Roman speeches of praise, this book demonstrates how Julian's fellow panegyrists, all of whom were members of the elite, engaged in a literary back-and forth that communicated their own demands and hopes to the emperor but also translated the emperor's intentions to those through whom he governed. The result is a series of lively, engaging snapshots of late Roman politics in action, as close to a look into the imperial mind as read by contemporaries as it is possible to get."--Susanna Elm, Sidney H. Ehrman Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley "The rhetorical outpourings of interested parties make for curious historical documents, and classical scholarship has not always been up to the challenge. Moysés Marcos's great achievement in this lively and rangy analysis of the Julianic moment is to show how high-profile panegyric could be, at once, commentary on and constitutive of imperial power play."--Roger Rees, St Andrews University, Scotland "This alert and erudite book demonstrates the powerful versatility of praise discourse as a means of political communication in the fourth century and sheds a vivid light on the emperor Julian and his entourage."--Laurent Pernot, member of the Institut de France and author of Epideictic Rhetoric "Emperors and Rhetoricians demonstrates the versatility of the panegyric as a medium of political and personal interests and offers valuable insights into communication between emperor and people in late antiquity. Marcos looks beyond the rhetoric of imperial praise to examine what was unspoken: self-promotion, insecurity, promises, and threats."--Catherine Ware, Lecturer in Classics, University College Cork, Ireland "The emperor Julian is unique in being both subject and author of imperial panegyric. Marcos has given us an invaluable and comprehensive account of Julianic panegyric, which shows just how central epideictic rhetoric was to the emperor's communicative agenda."--Alan J. Ross, Associate Professor of Classics, Ohio State University