Michael Shapiro: 26 books
The Speaking Self: Language Lore and English Usage
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
This book aims to explain social variation in language, otherwise the meaning and motivation of language change in its social aspect. It is the expanded and improved 2nd edition of the author’s self-published volume with the same title, based on revised and adapted posts on the author’s Languagelore...
Bottom of the Ninth
Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Fifty years ago, as baseball faced crises on and off the field, two larger-than-life figures took center stage, each on a quest to reinvent the national pastime
In the late 1950s, baseball was under siege. Up-and-coming cities that wanted teams of their own were being rebuffed by the owners,...
A Sense of Place
Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
In A Sense of Place, journalist/travel writer Michael Shapiro goes on a pilgrimage to visit the world's great travel writers on their home turf to get their views on their careers, the writer's craft, and most importantly, why they chose to live where they do and what that place means to them. The...
by Daniel Alpay, Maria Elena Luna-Elizarrarás, Michael Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
This book provides the foundations for a rigorous theory of functional analysis with bicomplex scalars. It begins with a detailed study of bicomplex and hyperbolic numbers and then defines the notion of bicomplex modules. After introducing a number of norms and inner products on such modules (some...
Deforming American Political Thought
Ethnicity, Facticity, and Genre
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2006
By affirming the relativity of the American historical imagination, political theorist Michael J. Shapiro offers a powerful polemic against ethnocentric interpretations of American culture and politics. Deforming American Political Thought analyzes issues that range from the nature of Thomas Jefferson's...
Death by a Thousand Cuts
The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
This fast-paced book by Yale professors Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro unravels the following mystery: How is it that the estate tax, which has been on the books continuously since 1916 and is paid by only the wealthiest two percent of Americans, was repealed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support?...
by Michael J. Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In The Political Sublime Michael J. Shapiro formulates an original politics of aesthetics through an analysis of the experience of the sublime. Turning away from Kant's analysis of the sublime experience as a validation of the existence of a universal common sense, Shapiro draws on Deleuze, Lyotard,...
by Michael J. Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
What do we know about war crimes and justice? What are the discursive practices through which the dominant images of war crimes, atrocity and justice are understood?
In this wide ranging text, Michael J. Shapiro contrasts the justice-related imagery of the war crimes trial (for example the...
by Michael J. Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
In recent years, film has been one of the major genres within which the imaginaries involved in mapping the geopolitical world have been represented and reflected upon.
In this book, one of America's foremost theorists of culture and politics treats those aspects of the "geopolitical aesthetic"...
by Lawrence A. Shapiro, Shannon Spaulding, Daniel D. Hutto
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
The first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists considers the mind–body relationship from the perspective of athletic skill and sports practice.
This landmark work is the first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists...
by Ed Simon, Michael Strauss, Raja Halwani
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New Ideas
Issue #5: April 2019
Featuring Ideas by: Michael Strauss, Ed Simon, Raja Halwani, Robert Noggle, Archie Brown, Michael Robertson, Nancy Weiss Malkiel, Peter Levine, Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Julian Baggini, Christopher Kavanagh, and Johanna Hanink
Studies in Trans-Disciplinary Method
After the Aesthetic Turn
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This groundbreaking and innovative text addresses the deep ontological and epistemological commitments that underpin conventional positivist methods and then demonstrates how "method" can be understood in much broader and more interesting ways.
Drawing on a broad range of philosophical...
Methods and Nations
Cultural Governance and the Indigenous Subject
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Methods and Nations critiques one of the primary deployments of twentieth-century social science: comparative politics whose major focus has been "nation-building" in the "Third World," often attempting to universalize and render self-evident its own practices. International relations...
New Earth Politics
Essays from the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Prominent scholars and practitioners consider the role of global environmental politics in the face of increasing environmental stress.
Humanity's collective impact on the Earth is vast. The rate and scale of human-driven environmental destruction is quickly outstripping our political and social...
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