Author: John Gilmour
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Keywords: series, policy, institutional, studies, pitt, politics, disagreement, stalemate, american, strategic
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1995-11-16
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 082295575X
ISBN-13: 9780822955757

Politics may be the art of compromise, but accepting a compromise can be hazardous to a politician’s health.  Politicians worry about betraying faithful supporters, about losing the upper hand on an issue before the next election, that accepting half a loaf today can make it harder to get the whole loaf tomorrow.  In his original interpretation of competition between parties and between Congress and the president, Gilmour explains the strategies available to politicians who prefer to disagree and uncovers the lost opportunities to pass important legislation that result from this disagreeme

Author: Kathleen Brady
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Keywords: muckraker, portrait, tarbell, ida
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 1989-09-21
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0822958074
ISBN-13: 9780822958079

This definitive biography of Ida Tarbell, on of America’s great journalists, is highly readably and widely acclaimed.

Authors:Lisandro Perez, Uva De Aragon,
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Keywords: cuban, studies, pittsburgh
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2002-03-28
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0822941759
ISBN-13: 9780822941750

The essays, research notes, book reviews, and bibliography in this volume continue the multidisciplinary journal’s tradition as the premier publication in the field. In addition to four articles on Cuban literature-focusing on the poetry of Amando Fernández and Ena Lucía Portela, the novels of Roberto G. Fernández, and the "dirty realism" of Pedro Juan Gutierrez-there are essays examining the political afterlife of Eduardo Chibás, the spread and prevention of AIDS among Cuban-American women, and the Cuban Constitutions promulgated over the past forty years. A research note based upon

Authors:Jo-Marie Burt, Philip Mauceri,
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Keywords: latin, american, studies, pitt, reform, andes, identity, conflict, politics
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2004-02-22
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0822958287
ISBN-13: 9780822958284

The Andean region is perhaps the most violent and politically unstable in the Western Hemisphere. Politics in the Andes is the first comprehensive volume to assess the persistent political challenges facing Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Arguing that Andean states and societies have been shaped by common historical forces, the contributors’ comparative approach reveals how different countries have responded variously to the challenges and opportunities presented by those forces. Individual chapters are structured around themes of ethnic, regional, and gender diversity;

Author: Sondra Horton Fraleigh
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Keywords: motion, metaphysics, identity, dancing
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-10-31
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0822942399
ISBN-13: 9780822942399

According to renowned performer, teacher, and dance scholar Sondra Fraleigh, "to value dance at all is to value the human, the beautiful, and the playful amid the erotic pulse of life. Dancing gives us the forms of our mind in movement, and it teaches us how to reconnect with our emotions, living them over again, sweeping clean their cellular foundations." Dancing Identity, her latest book, is a celebratory fusion of philosophy and movement. Combining critical analysis with personal history and poetry, Fraleigh presents a series of interconnected essays composed over a period of fifteen ye

Author: Mariolina Rizzi Salvatori
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Keywords: composition, literacy, culture, series, pittsburgh, disturbing, history, pedagogy
Number of Pages: 394
Published: 2003-09
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0822958228
ISBN-13: 9780822958222

This work studies contemporary appropriations of pedagogy.

Author: John Strohmeyer
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Keywords: bethlehem, crisis
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1994-08-16
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0822958112
ISBN-13: 9780822958116

Pulitzer Prize winner John Strohmeyer’s account of the collapse of Bethlehem Steel.  As editor of the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Globe-Times from 1956 to 1984, Strohmeyer followed the steel industry from the height of its power through its decline.  He evaluates the self-indulgence of both the unions and industry management and movingly describes the human agony caused by the failure of steel.  His account is reinforced by over one hundred interviews with steelworkers, union leaders, steel executives, and industry analysts.  First issued in 1986, the book is more significant than ever.  I