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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Biographical Writings
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 1995
Marking the centenary of the birth of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), this book offers a new approach to the Bauhaus artist and theorist’s multifaceted life and work—an approach that redefines the very idea of biographical writing.
In Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Louis Kaplan applies the Derridean deconstructivist...
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Queer Warhol
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 1996
Andy Warhol was queer in more ways than one. A fabulous queen, a fan of prurience and pornography, a great admirer of the male body, he was well known as such to the gay audiences who enjoyed his films, the police who censored them, the gallery owners who refused to show his male nudes, and the artists...
Songs of the Unsung
The Musical and Social Journey of Horace Tapscott
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2001
Despite his importance and influence, jazz musician, educator, and community leader Horace Tapscott remains relatively unknown to most Americans. In Songs of the Unsung Tapscott shares his life story, recalling his childhood in Houston, moving with his family to Los Angeles in 1943, learning music,...
African Rhythms
The Autobiography of Randy Weston
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
African Rhythms is the autobiography of the important jazz pianist, composer and band leader Randy Weston. He tells of his childhood in Brooklyn, his six decades long musical career, his time living in Morocco, and his lifelong quest to learn about the musical and cultural traditions of Africa.
Sandinista
Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2001
“A must-read for anyone interested in Nicaragua—or in the overall issue of social change.”—Margaret Randall, author of SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS and SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS REVISITED
Sandinista is the first English-language biography of Carlos Fonseca Amador, the legendary leader of the Sandinista...
A Mother's Cry
A Memoir of Politics, Prison, and Torture under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Brazil’s dictatorship arrested, tortured, and interrogated many people it suspected of subversion; hundreds of those arrested were killed in prison. In May 1970, Marcos P. S. Arruda, a young political activist, was seized in São Paulo, imprisoned, and tortured....
by Melissa S. Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Wall Street Women tells the story of the first generation of women to establish themselves as professionals on Wall Street. Since these women, who began their careers in the 1960s, faced blatant discrimination and barriers to advancement, they created formal and informal associations to bolster one...
Credit, Fashion, Sex
Economies of Regard in Old Regime France
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
In Old Regime France credit was both a central part of economic exchange and a crucial concept for explaining dynamics of influence and power in all spheres of life. Contemporaries used the term credit to describe reputation and the currency it provided in court politics, literary production, religion,...
From Silver to Cocaine
Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500–2000
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2006
Demonstrating that globalization is a centuries-old phenomenon, From Silver to Cocaine examines the commodity chains that have connected producers in Latin America with consumers around the world for five hundred years. In clear, accessible essays, historians from Latin America, England, and the United...
The Invention of Capitalism
Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2000
The originators of classical political economy—Adam Smith, David Ricardo, James Steuart, and others—created a discourse that explained the logic, the origin, and, in many respects, the essential rightness of capitalism. But, in the great texts of that discourse, these writers downplayed a crucial...
Conservation Is Our Government Now
The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2006
A significant contribution to political ecology, Conservation Is Our Government Now is an ethnographic examination of the history and social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New Guinea. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted over a period of seven years, Paige West focuses...
Biocapital
The Constitution of Postgenomic Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2006
Biocapital is a major theoretical contribution to science studies and political economy. Grounding his analysis in a multi-sited ethnography of genomic research and drug development marketplaces in the United States and India, Kaushik Sunder Rajan argues that contemporary biotechnologies such as genomics...
Global Pharmaceuticals
Ethics, Markets, Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2006
In some parts of the world spending on pharmaceuticals is astronomical. In others people do not have access to basic or life-saving drugs. Individuals struggle to afford medications; whole populations are neglected, considered too poor to constitute profitable markets for the development and distribution...
How Would You Like to Pay?
How Technology Is Changing the Future of Money
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
From Bitcoin to Apple Pay, big changes seem to be afoot in the world of money. Yet the use of coins and paper bills has persisted for 3,000 years. In How Would You Like to Pay?, leading anthropologist Bill Maurer narrates money's history, considers its role in everyday life, and discusses the implications...