Democracy's Medici: The Federal Reserve and the Art of Collecting is a profile of the central bank seen from the perspective of the author's unorthodox art-historical career as founding director of the Fine Arts Program of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, DC.
Understanding Communication and Moving beyond Blame
Exploring the nature of modern media, Friesem uses the fundamental principles of human communication to move away from the fear and blame that usually accompany discussions of new media technologies. The book employs the ACE model (from Awareness to Collaboration through Empathy) to build media literacy across professions and academic disciplines.
Black Millennials is a collection of writings by self-identified black millennials who engage with their own unique experiences of identity, career, and social engagement in modern society.
Encourage children to celebrate the special joys of each month of the year with these delightful verses and charming illustrations from Elsa Beskow. A collectable new edition of the classic picture book with a cloth spine.
A Journey into White Christian Nationalism and the Wreckage It Leaves Be
Journalist Angela Denker traveled for one year across the United States, meeting the Evangelical Christian voters who supported the Trump presidency to understand how their voting block continues to influence conservative politics, including the 2020 election, the transfer of power, and the subsequent insurrection at the United States Capitol.
Analysis, Aesthetics, and Experience of a 20th-Century Masterpiece
Morton Feldman viewed Piano and String Quartet as his capstone work-the culminating example of the aesthetic that Feldman spent his life seeking. Written in 1985, the year before Feldman's death, this single movement, roughly 80-minute composition was heralded by Steve Reich as "the most beautiful work [of Feldman's] I know." Ray Fields ......
The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan: Freedom in the Trenches characterizes Taiwan's postwar modernist literature as Cold War modernism par excellence that was born out of a constellation of Cold War circumstances, amounting to a perfect storm for its emergence.
This book traces the intellectual evolution of one important China scholar from the 1970s to the present, introducing some of the big issues that have dominated and continue to dominate the field to the present day. Joseph Esherick provides a nuanced historical perspective and conceptual toolkit for analyzing the important issues of modern China.
