Product Description: Written in 1929–1930, when Federico García Lorca was visiting Columbia University, Poet in New York stands as one of the great Waste Land poems of the 20th century. It expresses, as Betty Jean Craige writes in this volume,"a sudden radical estrangement of the poet from his universe"―an an estrangement graphically delineated in the dissonant, violent imagery which the poet derives from the technological world of New York...read more

Product Description: Literature, Language, and Politics brings together papers drawn from and inspired by the controversial, landmark symposium on “Politics and the Discipline” held at the 1987 Modern Language Association meeting in San Francisco...read more

Product Description: In a world where the acceptance of relativism has caused erosion in the tradition of Cartesian dualism, representationalism in the arts has come under serious questioning. The contributors to this book seek new standards for defining and evaluating works of art...read more

Product Description: An openly polemical work, Reconnection seeks a way of returning the humanities to their place at the center of human life. For the past three hundred years, to study the humanities has implied an isolation from politics, science, and society...read more

Students of nature around the world revere Eugene Pleasants Odum as a founder and pioneer of ecosystem ecology. In this biography of Odum, Betty Jean Craige depicts the intellectual growth, creativity, and vision of the scientist who made the ecosystem concept central to his discipline and translated the principles of ecosystem ecology into lessons in preserving the natural environment. Placing Odum's achievements in historical context, Craige portrays his life and career with meticulous attention to detail and with the intimacy of knowledge acquired through conversations with Odum himself. This book traces Odum's life from his childhood through his years of education, his collaboration with his younger brother Howard Thomas Odum in developing methods to study ecosystems, his contributions to the field of radiation ecology, his emergence as an internationally distinguished educator of ecosystem ecology, and his environmental activism. Craige also describes Odum's role in the creation of the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, the Marine Institute on Sapelo Island, and the Institute of Ecology at the University of Georgia, where, in the minds of his students, he became identified with the statement "The ecosystem is greater than the sum of its parts." Odum's classic textbook Fundamentals of Ecology has been published in numerous editions and translations worldwide. Odum has achieved membership in the National Academy of Sciences, shared with his brother the prestigious Crafoord Prize for Ecology, accepted six honorary doctorates, and received numerous awards for environmental activities. Eugene Odum: Ecosystem Ecologist and Environmentalist illuminates one of the twentieth century's giants in the natural sciences.

Product Description: As we watched the horrors wrought on September 11, 2001, unfold, the question on our lips was "Why?" A year after the attack on the United States, women of varied ethnic and religious backgrounds examine this question. Many of these writers grew up outside of the U...read more

Product Description: This book argues that the transformation of our world into a global society is causing a resurgence of tribalism at the same time that it is inspiring the ideology of political holism--the understanding of human society as an evolving global system of interdependent individuals, cultures, and nations...read more

Product Description: This timely and provocative book examines a fundamental shift in contemporary Western thought: the replacement of the traditional dualistic and hierarchical model of reality by a holistic one. Betty Jean Craige traces the emergence of this new paradigm to Charles Darwin, whose evolutionary theory exploded the idea of a fixed natural hierarchy and opened the way for a more egalitarian vision of human society as an evolving system of interdependent individuals and cultures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A bilingual edition of selected poems by the prizewinning Spanish poet, novelist, and scholar. The book contains a critical introduction by Betty Jean Craige, a general discussion of contemporary poetry in Spain by Craige and Mantero, and a bibliography of the poet's work.

Product Description: An introduction to and a translation of a selected body of poetry by the contemporary Spanish-Basque poet Gabriel Celaya, who writes of the implications for mankind of the end of the duelist paradigm. In his late work, shaped by his interest in contemporary physics, Celaya articulates a posthumanist understanding of nature...read more

Product Description: An extended essay explaining the peculiarities of twentieth-century narrative form as consequences of the absence of a fixed frame of reference in the relativistic universe. Professor Craige discusses the philosophical motivations of style in the subjectivist, objectivist, and ironic-absurdist modes and then provides readings of works by Butor...read more