UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS

(P/B) CATALOG OF UNABASHED GRATITUDE
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away-loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it-that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard. That is, this is a book that studies the wisdom of the garden and orchard, those places where all-death, sorrow, loss-is converted into what might, with patience, nourish us. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE TORMENTED MIRROR
This is the first book in the Pitt Poetry Series by this popular and enigmatic poet, considered the foremost writer of prose poetry in America. In eleven collections over thirty years, Edson has created his own poetic genre, a surreal philosophical fable, easy to enter, but difficult to leave behind. In The Tormented Mirror, Edson continues and refines his form in seventy-three new poems..(From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE WALLS BEHIND THE CURTAIN
Because of their visibility in society and ability to shape public opinion, prominent literary figures were among the first targets of Communist repression, torture, and incarceration. Authors such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn famously documented the experience of internment in Soviet gulags. Little, however, has been published in the English language on the work of writers imprisoned by other countries of the Soviet bloc. For the first time, "The Walls behind the Curtain" presents a collection of works from East European novelists, poets, pl...
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(P/B) TRANSPARENCY IN GLOBAL CHANGE
Transparency in Global Change examines the quest for information exchange in an increasingly international, open society. Recent transformations in governments and cultures have brought about a surge in the pursuit of knowledge in areas of law, trade, professions, investment, education, and medical practice-among others. Technological advancements in communications, led by the United States, and public access to information fuel the phenomenon of transparency. This rise in transparency parallels a diminution of secrecy-though, as Burkart a...
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(H/B) DANCING INTO DARKNESS

(P/B) SANITARY CITY: ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES IN URBAN AMERICA

(P/B) INTERSECTING TANGO

(P/B) ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANXIETY: THE RUSSIAN SILVER AGE

(P/B) WRITING THE SIEGE OF LENINGRAND

(H/B) PEELING POTATOES OR GRINDING LENSES
"I can work best now while peeling potatoes... It is for me what lens-grinding was for Spinoza." - L. Wittgenstein More than 250 years separate the publication of Baruch Spinoza's Ethics and Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Both are considered monumental philosophical treatises, produced during markedly different times in human history, and notoriously challenging to interpret. In Peeling Potatoes or Grinding Lenses, Aristides Baltas contends that these works bear a striking similarity based on the idea of "radical i...
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