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The Photography of Crisis: The Photo Essays of Weimar Germany

Author: Daniel Magilow
One noteworthy product of Weimar Germany’s booming cultural life has escaped significant critical attention: the photo essay. This book examines narrative photography and creates a snapshot of where Germany was after World War I and what it would become with the rise of National Socialism.

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The Fortunate Era

Author: Arthur Smith
The source of this poetry book’s title is the observation of a Nobel Laureate in physics, who said, “We live in the fortunate era… in which there is matter.” These poems are made of both familiar and elegantly spinning insight, real as rock.

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When All of Rome Was Under Construction: The Building Process in Baroque Rome

Author: Dorothy Habel
This book considers the politics and processes involved in building the city of Rome during the baroque period and reconstructs the role of the ‘public voice’ in the creation of the city, offering a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the will of the public.

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Recent Developments in Southeastern Archaeology: From Colonization to Complexity

Co-Author: David G. Anderson
This book is a synthesis of the prehistory of the Southeastern U.S. that is designed for high school and college students, avocational archaeologists, and interested members of the general public. It also serves as a basic reference for professional archaeologists worldwide on the record of a remarkable region.

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Jon Garthoff

Recognizing Jon Garthoff for being invited to give a paper in South Africa on the moral status of animals.