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In these lyrical poems, Carol V. Davis explores earthy and mysterious themes.

Vol. 35, No. 1 & 2 (2012)

President Harry Truman identified himself repeatedly as a champion of civil liberties in the American system of government. (TLS 9)

This volume contextualizes the diversity of episcopal experience across early modern Europe, while showing the similarity of goals and challenges among various confessional, social, and geographical communities.     (EMS 10)

With a keen sense of observation and humility, and with subtle humor even in the face of tragedy, John Ridland bridges the past, present, and future by acknowledging the human need to reconcile ourselves with our memories.

Through transcendent, lyric verse, these poems explore the spiritual struggle for harmony between the contemporary and contemplative life.

The armory buildings in most Missouri towns are the unheralded local face of the Missouri National Guard.

This study examines the complex and rich relationship of the noble cousins that spanned the battlefields, bedchambers, courts, and backrooms of taverns from Paris to Turin to the frontiers between the Genevois and Geneva.     (EMS 9)

This collection of interdisciplinary essays introduces the history and culture of the lands ruled by the sovereign house of Savoy during the late medieval and early modern periods, territories now part of France, Italy, and Switzerland.     (EMS 12)

Winner of the 2012 T. S. Eliot Prize. This prize-winning collection guides readers through the working-class neighborhood of Kensington, not as tourists or passersby, but as open-eyed observers of the visceral and unique spirit of the locales and its inhabitants.

David Livewell has an affectionate way of collecting his thoughts, the poems’ impulses, his personal and shared history. In the book’s beginning he collects “Philly Things”: at the summation he and his loved ones collect together.

—Sandra McPherson, 2012 T. S. Eliot Prize judge

Forging a bond with rugged places and wild creatures, casting to brook trout, or reflecting on the forces that compel people to fly fish, Chad Hanson proves himself a formidable guide.

Robert Graber explores the historical, philosophical, and sociological origins and nature of liberal arts and sciences education and draws on anthropology to show us how much to value such useless knowledge.

This interdisciplinary volume draws on approaches from art history and cultural studies to investigate the manifestations of secrecy in printed books and drawings, staircases and narrative paintings, ecclesiastical furnishings and engravers’ tools.