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Find out what connects logic and humor in this alternative guide...
Find out what connects logic and humor in this alternative guide to logical reasoning. Combining jokes, stories, and ironic situations, Stan Baronett shows how it is possible to ground the language of logic in everyday experience.
Ahmed explores how complaints are made behind closed doors and...
Ahmed explores how complaints are made behind closed doors and how doors are often closed on those who complain. To open these doors—to get complaints through, keep them going, or keep them alive—Ahmed emphasizes, requires forming new kinds of collectives.
The book sheds light on his many contradictions: he was the son...
The book sheds light on his many contradictions: he was the son of a billionaire, yet insisted his family live like paupers. He adored his wives and children, depending on two of his wives, both of whom had PhDs, to make important strategic decisions. Yet he also brought ruin to his family.
He follows the dirty money that is flooding the global economy,...
He follows the dirty money that is flooding the global economy, emboldening dictators, and poisoning democracies. From the Kremlin to Beijing, Harare to Riyadh, Paris to the White House, the trail shows something even more sinister: the thieves are uniting. And the human cost will be great.
Drawing on numerous interviews with Bradbury and privileged...
Drawing on numerous interviews with Bradbury and privileged access to personal papers and private collections, Jonathan R. Eller examines the often-overlooked second half of Bradbury’s working life.
An American Muslim woman, attorney, and political philosopher,...
An American Muslim woman, attorney, and political philosopher, Rafia Zakaria champions a reconstruction of feminism in Against White Feminism , centering women of color in this transformative overview and counter-manifesto to white feminism’s global, long-standing affinity with colonial, patriarchal, and white supremacist ideals.
Using their evidence he has pieced together a compelling...
Using their evidence he has pieced together a compelling comparative portrait of evil, in which idealism is polluted by bloody pragmatism, and human suffering is used casually as a political tool.
Yet America was already in poor health before COVID-19 appeared....
Yet America was already in poor health before COVID-19 appeared. Racism, marginalization, socioeconomic inequality–our failure to address these forces left us vulnerable to COVID-19 and the ensuing global health crisis it became.
Politicians are not solely to blame, however. Corporate media...
Politicians are not solely to blame, however. Corporate media has us following the news of the day for clicks and views rather than pursuing long term stories of impact. Reporters have ceased to frame the narrative and failed to co-opt social media contributions until it was too late.
In Emancipation’s Daughters , Riché Richardson examines...
In Emancipation’s Daughters , Riché Richardson examines iconic black women leaders who have contested racial stereotypes and constructed new national narratives of black womanhood in the United States.
Motivated by principles of “good government” and...
Motivated by principles of “good government” and using large national corporations as a model, these elite reformers sought to transform the federal government’s ineffectual executive branch into a modern organization with the capacity to solve national problems.
In this compelling evaluation of Cold War popular culture, Pulp...
In this compelling evaluation of Cold War popular culture, Pulp Vietnam explores how men’s adventure magazines helped shape the attitudes of young, working-class Americans, the same men who fought and served in the long and bitter war in Vietnam.
Yet even when democratic waves failed, there were always some...
Yet even when democratic waves failed, there were always some achievements that lasted. Even the most virulently reactionary regimes could not suppress every element of democratic progress.
The digital landscape has fundamentally altered what it means to...
The digital landscape has fundamentally altered what it means to be creative, as well as how consumers interact with artistic production both economically and curatorially.
Contextualizing ngoma within South Africa’s history of...
Contextualizing ngoma within South Africa’s history of violence, migrant labor, the HIV epidemic, and the world music market, Meintjes follows a community ngoma team and its professional subgroup during the twenty years after apartheid’s end.
While still in the camp and too weak to leave, Thomas felt a...
While still in the camp and too weak to leave, Thomas felt a compelling need to document it all, and drew over eighty drawings, all portrayed in simple yet poignant detail with extraordinary accuracy.
Red Creative is an exploration of China’s cultural economy...
Red Creative is an exploration of China’s cultural economy over the last twenty years, particularly through the lens of its creative hub of Shanghai.
In the early sixties, South Africa’s colonial policies in...
In the early sixties, South Africa’s colonial policies in Namibia served as a testing ground for many key features of its repressive ‘Grand Apartheid’ infrastructure, including strategies for countering anti-apartheid resistance.
And as we face warming temperatures, melting ice, and rising...
And as we face warming temperatures, melting ice, and rising seas, Bravo argues, only an understanding of the North Pole’s deeper history, of our conception of it as both a sacred and living place, can help humanity face its twenty-first-century predicament.