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Venice
A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Nestled between Santa Monica and Marina del Rey, Venice is a Los Angeles community filled with apparent contradictions. There, people of various races and classes live side by side, a population of astounding diversity bound together by geographic proximity. From street to street, and from block...
Building a Revolutionary State
The Legal Transformation of New York, 1776-1783
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
How does a popular uprising transform itself from the disorder of revolution into a legal system that carries out the daily administration required to govern? Americans faced this question during the Revolution as colonial legal structures collapsed under the period’s disorder. Yet by the end of...
by W. Matthew Shipman
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Whether sharing a spectacular shot from a deep-space probe, announcing a development in genetic engineering, or crafting an easy-to-reference list of cancer risk factors, science public information officers, or PIOs, serve as scientific liaisons, connecting academic, nonprofit, government, and other...
Urban Appetites
Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Glossy magazines write about them, celebrities give their names to them, and you’d better believe there’s an app (or ten) committed to finding you the right one. They are New York City restaurants and food shops. And their journey to international notoriety is a captivating one. The now-booming...
by Robert S. Erikson, Christopher Wlezien
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Do voters cast ballots for the candidates whose positions best match their own? Or does the race for president come down to who runs the most effective campaign? In their book, The Timeline of Presidential Elections, published in 2012, Erikson and Wlezien documented how both factors come into play....
Making Jet Engines in World War II
Britain, Germany, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Our stories of industrial innovation tend to focus on individual initiative and breakthroughs. With Making Jet Engine**s in World War II, Hermione Giffard uses the case of the development of jet engines to offer a different way of understanding technological innovation, revealing the complicated mix...
Packaged Pleasures
How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
From the candy bar to the cigarette, records to roller coasters, a technological revolution during the last quarter of the nineteenth century precipitated a colossal shift in human consumption and sensual experience. Food, drink, and many other consumer goods came to be mass-produced, bottled, canned,...
Friending the Past
The Sense of History in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Can today’s society, increasingly captivated by a constant flow of information, share a sense of history? How did our media-making forebears balance the tension between the present and the absent, the individual and the collective, the static and the dynamic—and how do our current digital networks...
Charismatic Capitalism
Direct Selling Organizations in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Tupperware Home Parties, Shaklee Corporation, Amway, Mary Kay Cosmetics—theirs is an approach to business that violates many of the basic tenets of modern American commerce. Yet these direct selling organizations, fashioned by charismatic leaders and built upon devoted armies of door-to-door representatives,...
Legal Writing in Plain English, Second Edition
A Text with Exercises
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Admirably clear, concise, down-to-earth, and powerful—all too often, legal writing embodies none of these qualities. Its reputation for obscurity and needless legalese is widespread. Since 2001 Bryan A. Garner’s Legal Writing in Plain English has helped address this problem by providing lawyers,...
Letting Stories Breathe
A Socio-Narratology
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. But they do not merely entertain, inform, or distress us—they show us what counts as right or wrong and teach us who we are and who we can imagine being. Stories connect people, but they can also disconnect, creating boundaries between people...
Political Epistemics
The Secret Police, the Opposition, and the End of East German Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
What does the durability of political institutions have to do with how actors form knowledge about them? Andreas Glaeser investigates this question in the context of a fascinating historical case: socialist East Germany’s unexpected self-dissolution in 1989. His analysis builds on extensive in-depth...
by Jacques Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Theory and Practice is a series of nine lectures that Jacques Derrida delivered at the École Normale Supérieure in 1976 and 1977. The topic of “theory and practice” was associated above all with Marxist discourse and particularly the influential interpretation of Marx by Louis Althusser. Derrida’s...
Mind, Self, and Society
The Definitive Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
George Herbert Mead is widely recognized as one of the most brilliantly original American pragmatists. Although he had a profound influence on the development of social philosophy, he published no books in his lifetime. This makes the lectures collected in Mind, Self, and Society all the more remarkable,...