Wendy Brown: 37 books
Is Critique Secular?
Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
This volume interrogates settled ways of thinking about the seemingly interminable conflict between religious and secular values in our world today. What are the assumptions and resources internal to secular conceptions of critique that help or hinder our understanding of one of the most pressing...
Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places
Justice Beyond and Between
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
An impressive line-up of leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines – law, but also anthropology, rhetoric, literature, history, geography, and race and ethnic studies.
by Slavoj Žižek, Kristin Ross, Jacques Rancière
Language: French
Release Date: April 23, 2009
Language: French
Release Date: April 23, 2009
"Qu'est-ce qu'un démocrate, je vous prie ? C'est là un mot vague, banal, sans acception précise, un mot en caoutchouc." Cette question, ce jugement sans appel d'Auguste Blanqui datent d'un siècle et demi mais gardent une actualité dont ce livre est un signe. Il ne faut pas s'attendre...
by Wendy Brown-Baez
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
Catch a Dream takes place in Israel during the time of the first intifada in 1988 when Arabic frustration for a homeland erupted in strikes, demonstrations and suicide bombings and Israelis retaliated with arrests, house demolitions and stricter check-points. Rainbow Dove and Lily Ambrosia, traveling...
Manhood and Politics
A Feminist Reading in Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 1998
'Is politics gendered? Wendy Brown things so, and argues for this point with elegance, imagination and pungent phrases. Brown's book is challenging, provocative and...original; it does force us to question the degree to which gender controls our politics.'-THE REVIEW OF POLITICS
Travel Dreams and Nightmares
Four Women Explore the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
At a fateful travel writing workshop, Barbara, Louise, and Janet knew they had to collaborate. Soon, Wendy joined them, and the new writing group got to work.
LOUISE enjoys easy travels, wine, and good food. She takes you deep inside a Hungarian wine cellar and travels from Dawson City in the...
Authentic Movement
Essays by Mary Starks Whitehouse, Janet Adler and Joan Chodorow
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Patrizia Pallaro's second volume of essays on Authentic Movement, eight years after her first, is a tour de force. It is indeed "an extraordinary array of papers", as Pallaro puts it, and an immensely rich, moving and highly readable sweep through the landscapes of Authentic Movement, "this...
Comrades in Health
U.S. Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Since the early twentieth century, politically engaged and socially committed U.S. health professionals have worked in solidarity with progressive movements around the world. Often with roots in social medicine, political activism, and international socialism, these doctors, nurses, and other health...
Circling Faith
Southern Women on Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Circling Faith is a collection of essays by southern women that encompasses spirituality and the experience of winding through the religiously charged environment of the American South.
Mary Karr, in “Facing Altars,” describes how the consolation she found in poetry directed her...
by John Brown, Pat Gaudin, Wendy Moran
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
In the UK's current climate of budget cuts and policy changes, local government officials need to be aware of best practice in both broadcasting their services and responding to crises in their communities. Meanwhile, changes in the media - from the rise of social media, to web access for older consumers...
by Wendy J. Schiller, Professor, Brown University
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
In an era of heightened partisanship and increased polarization, The Contemporary Congress offers a clear and concise introduction to legislative processes. Perfect as a brief core or supplementary text for undergraduate courses, Loomis and Schiller construct a comprehensive portrait of the U.S. Congress,...
by Wendy Volhard, Kerry Brown, D.V.M.
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
A complete revision of a ground-breaking reference.
Designed to provide updated information found in the original book, as well as lots of new topics, and a new organization—this second edition is more user-friendly than ever!
Readers will get the latest on:
Healthful diets for...
Religion, Culture, and International Conflict
A Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005
As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...
Asperger Syndrome and Social Relationships
Adults Speak Out about Asperger Syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
This book is essential reading to understand the social abilities of adults with Asperger's syndrome. The contributors each have different personalities and experiences, but together they provide a range of strategies to encourage people with Asperger's syndrome to achieve the social relationships...