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Energopolitics
Wind and Power in the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to wind power. Their work manifested itself as a new ethnographic form: the duograph—a combination of...
Shadows of Empire
Colonial Discourse and Javanese Tales
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 1996
Shadows of Empire explores Javanese shadow theater as a staging area for negotiations between colonial power and indigenous traditions. Charting the shifting boundaries between myth and history in Javanese Mahabharata and Ramayana tales, Laurie J. Sears reveals what happens when these stories move...
Ecologics
Wind and Power in the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to wind power. Their work manifested itself as a new ethnographic form: the duograph—a combination of...
by Lisa Schoonover
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Phoebe the Pugchi has a wonderful dream one night about her hometown of Oakland.
The Habit of Lying
Sacrificial Studies in Literature, Philosophy, and Fashion Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2002
Lying appears to be ubiquitous, what Franz Kafka called "a universal principle”; yet, despite a number of recent books on the subject, it has been given comparatively little genuinely systematic attention by philosophers, social scientists, or even literary theorists. In The Habit of Lying...
Murder
A Tale of Modern American Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
What exactly is it about murder that claims such a powerful hold on the American imagination? In this book, Sara L. Knox examines postwar America’s preoccupation with this act of violence. Demonstrating how American culture both consumes and produces tales of murder, Knox examines numerous relevant...
by Gong Ji-young
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Already a wildly popular bestseller in South Korea, this gripping and passionate debut novel is a death row love story of crime, punishment, and forgiveness—vividly told by the exquisitely talented Gong Ji-young.
Yu-Jung, beautiful, wealthy, and bright, is lying in her hospital bed, recovering...
The Hunger and the Howling of Killian Lone
The Secret Ingredient of Unforgettable Food Is Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Part sinister fairy tale, part gothic horror novel, this unique debut pulls back the curtain on the celebrity chef’s kitchen, revealing a disturbing world of ambition and brutality.
Killian Lone comes from a long line of gifted cooks, stretching back to the seventeenth century, and yearns...
A Doctor in The Great War
Unseen Photographs of Life in the Trenches
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Featuring 250 previously unknown photographs, this is the extraordinary true story of a young doctor whose photos left behind an astonishing firsthand account of life at the front of World War I.
As a twenty-five-year-old medical officer and one of the first doctors to win the Military Cross,...
The Journey is Everything
A Journal of the Seventies
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 1983
“What does one learn by taking a journey, any journey?” Helen Bevington asks. “I’ve taken a shaky trip through a decade (to Russia, to the mailbox, to bed) to the end of the 1970s, about which uncomplimentary and increasingly anxious remarks were made by us all--you, me, and the media.”
This...
Colored Amazons
Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2006
Colored Amazons is a groundbreaking historical analysis of the crimes, prosecution, and incarceration of black women in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. Kali N. Gross reconstructs black women’s crimes and their representations in popular press accounts and within the discourses...
Zhang Hongtu
Expanding Visions of a Shrinking World
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
In this book, leading art experts, art historians, and critics review the life, career, and artistic development of New York based Chinese artist Zhang Hongtu. A pioneer in contemporary Chinese art, Zhang created the first example of "China Pop" art, and his oeuvre is as diverse, intellectually...
Dying Planet
Mars in Science and the Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
For more than a century, Mars has been at the center of debates about humanity’s place in the cosmos. Focusing on perceptions of the red planet in scientific works and science fiction, Dying Planet analyzes the ways Mars has served as a screen onto which humankind has projected both its hopes for...
Watching Jim Crow
The Struggles over Mississippi TV, 1955–1969
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2004
In the early 1960s, whenever the Today Show discussed integration, wlbt-tv, the nbc affiliate in Jackson, Mississippi, cut away to local news after announcing that the Today Show content was “network news . . . represent[ing] the views of the northern press.” This was only one part of a larger...