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Aftermath
Violence and the Remaking of a Self
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
On July 4, 1990, while on a morning walk in southern France, Susan Brison was attacked from behind, severely beaten, sexually assaulted, strangled to unconsciousness, and left for dead. She survived, but her world was destroyed. Her training as a philosopher could not help her make sense of things,...
Liberal Leviathan
The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
In the second half of the twentieth century, the United States engaged in the most ambitious and far-reaching liberal order building the world had yet seen. This liberal international order has been one of the most successful in history in providing security and prosperity to more people. But in the...
Christian Martyrs under Islam
Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
How did the medieval Middle East transform from a majority-Christian world to a majority-Muslim world, and what role did violence play in this process? Christian Martyrs under Islam explains how Christians across the early Islamic caliphate slowly converted to the faith of the Arab conquerors and...
1177 B.C.
The Year Civilization Collapsed
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world...
Ethnography and Virtual Worlds
A Handbook of Method
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
Ethnography and Virtual Worlds is the only book of its kind--a concise, comprehensive, and practical guide for students, teachers, designers, and scholars interested in using ethnographic methods to study online virtual worlds, including both game and nongame environments. Written by leading ethnographers...
by Despina Stratigakos
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
For a century and a half, women have been proving their passion and talent for building and, in recent decades, their enrollment in architecture schools has soared. Yet the number of women working as architects remains stubbornly low, and the higher one looks in the profession, the scarcer women become....
Old Masters and Young Geniuses
The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
When in their lives do great artists produce their greatest art? Do they strive for creative perfection throughout decades of painstaking and frustrating experimentation, or do they achieve it confidently and decisively, through meticulous planning that yields masterpieces early in their lives?
By...
The Posthuman Dada Guide
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
This is a guide for instructing posthumans in living a Dada life. It is not advisable, nor was it ever, to lead a Dada life."—The Posthuman Dada Guide
The Posthuman Dada Guide is an impractical handbook for practical living in our posthuman world—all by way of examining the imagined...
Kafka
The Early Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography of the writer answers that question with more facts and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural circumstances that shaped the young Franz Kafka...
The Bells in Their Silence
Travels through Germany
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Nobody writes travelogues about Germany. The country spurs many anxious volumes of investigative reporting--books that worry away at the "German problem," World War II, the legacy of the Holocaust, the Wall, reunification, and the connections between them. But not travel books, not the free-ranging...
Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth
Vico and Neapolitan Painting
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Can painting transform philosophy? In Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth, Malcolm Bull looks at Neapolitan art around 1700 through the eyes of the philosopher Giambattista Vico. Surrounded by extravagant examples of late Baroque painting by artists like Luca Giordano and Francesco Solimena, Vico concluded...
by Nicola Suthor
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Roughness is the sensual quality most often associated with Rembrandt's idiosyncratic style. It best defines the specific structure of his painterly textures, which subtly capture and engage the imagination of the beholder. Rembrandt's Roughness examines how the artist's unconventional technique pushed...
The Chosen Few
How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2012
In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing in crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine in hundreds of places across the Old World, from Seville...
Jews and the Military
A History
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
Jews and the Military is the first comprehensive and comparative look at Jews' involvement in the military and their attitudes toward war from the 1600s until the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Derek Penslar shows that although Jews have often been described as people who shun the army,...