University of Pittsburgh Press

  • The Costa Rican Women’s Movement

    This reader reflects the  genesis, scope, and direction of women’s activism in a single Latin American country.  It collects the voices of forty-one diverse women who live in Costa Rica,…

    $37.95
  • The Crack In Everything

    This volume of poetry from Alicia Suskin Ostriker is one of her most ambitious, ranging from laments and celebrations for a flawed world to meditations on art and artists, to…

    $17.00
  • The Cuban Embargo

    The United States and Cuba share a complex, fractious, interconnected history. Before 1959, the United States was the island nation’s largest trading partner. But in swift reaction to Cuba’s communist…

    $35.95
  • The Falling Hour

    The Falling Hour is the fifth collection of poetry by David Wojahn, one of the most highly regarded poets of his generation. It is a fiercly elegiac and even apocalyptic…

    $17.00
  • The Horse Fair

    In The Horse Fair, Robin Becker asks questions about citizenship and participation in the marketplaces—of bodies, of ideas, of objects—in which we function. She investigates how individuals marginalized by gender,…

    $17.00
  • The Imaginary Lover

    • Winner of the 1987 William Carlos Williams Award presented by the Poetry Society of America With The Imaginary Lover, Alicia Suskin Ostriker takes her place among the most striking…

    $17.00
  • The Limits Of Science

    Perfected science is but an idealization that provides a useful contrast to highlight the limited character of what we do and can attain. This lies at the core of various…

    $37.95
  • The Little Space

    In this selection of poems from thirty years of a distinguished writing career, we see the growth of a poet’s mind, heart, and spirit as Ostriker struggles to love “this…

    $22.00
  • The Philosophy and Politics of Czech Dissidence from Patocka to Havel

    A critical study of the philosophy and political practice of the Czech dissident movement Charter 77. Aviezer Tucker examines how the political philosophy of Jan Patocka (1907–1977), founder of Charter 77,…

    $35.95
  • The Philosophy Of Scientific Experimentation

    Since the late 1980s, the neglect of experiment by philosophers and historians of science has been replaced by a keen interest in the subject. In this volume, a number of…

    $38.95
  • The Political Psychology of the Gulf War

    In these original essays, widely respected experts analyze the personal psychologies and public belief systems of the individuals and nations involved in the Gulf War – from George Bush and…

    $42.95
  • The Politics Of Democratization In Korea

    What role did civil society play in Korea’s recent democratization? How does the Korean case compare with cases from other regions of the world? What is the current status of…

    $35.95