Product Description: What more in life could you want? Jonathan is a young man getting near graduation from college but is already playing professional baseball. Unlike the typical athlete, he is very much into poetry and hopes to get a book published someday...read more

Product Description: From southeast Washington, DC, where the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers meet, this fort has continued to protect America’s capital. In 1791, Pierre L’Enfant designated it as a military reservation. The post is the third oldest in continuous operation―as an arsenal, a penitentiary, a hospital, and now, a military education center...read more

Product Description: Nobody can fulfill all of his or her responsibilities without the help and motivation of others because we live in a society not in isolated island. Truly, a company, a sports team, or organization will be miserable if the members of it will not be willing to work with one another...read more

Product Description: Perspectives on Social Ontology and Social Cognition brings together contributions discussing issues arising from theoretical and empirical research on social ontology and social cognition. It is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary collection in this rapidly expanding area...read more

From Thomas Jefferson to John Rawls, justice has been at the center of America’s self-image and national creed. At the same time, for many of its peoples-from African slaves and European immigrants to women and the poor-the American experience has been defined by injustice: oppression, disenfranchisement, violence, and prejudice. In Identity and the Failure of America, John Michael explores the contradictions between a mythic national identity promising justice to all and the realities of a divided, hierarchical, and frequently iniquitous history and social order. Through a series of insightful readings, Michael analyzes such cultural moments as the epic dramatization of the tension between individual ambition and communal complicity in Moby-Dick, attempts to effect social change through sympathy in the novels of Lydia Marie Child and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s antislavery activism and Frederick Douglass’s long fight for racial equity, and the divisive figures of John Brown and Nat Turner in American letters and memory. Focusing on exemplary instances when the nature of the United States as an essentially conflicted nation turned to force, Michael ultimately posits the development of a more cosmopolitan American identity, one that is more fully and justly imagined in response to the nation’s ethical failings at home and abroad. John Michael is professor of English and of visual and cultural studies at the University of Rochester. He is the author of Anxious Intellects: Academic Professionals, Public Intellectuals, and Enlightenment Values and Emerson and Skepticism: The Cipher of the World.

Product Description: In the many decades of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the full complexity of that strife has seldom been heard. This special issue of SAQ seeks to intervene by offering a critique of the Palestinian experience. Mapping the complicated relationship among Palestine, the United States, and Israel, this issue includes critical essays on the politics, culture, literature, and history of the Palestinian people...read more

Product Description: Intellectuals occupy a paradoxical position in contemporary American culture as they struggle both to maintain their critical independence and to connect to the larger society. In Anxious Intellects John Michael discusses how critics from the right and the left have conceived of the intellectual’s role in a pluralized society, weighing intellectual authority against public democracy, universal against particularistic standards, and criticism against the respect of popular movements...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Readers will be enlightened, while seriously facing their lifestyle habits, with this succinct, yet comprehensive, dialogue of an ex-alcoholic and his conversion to drinking moderately. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Emerson & Skepticism: The Cipher Of The World by Michael, John. 8vo.