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Ben Davis is the editor of Artinfo, one of the world's most popular resources for information and discussion on arts and culture. As a critic, he has become painfully aware of the role that class plays in art. 9.5 Theses on Art and Class seeks to show...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143135869Author Maeve HigginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547437Author Ed FinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626016699Author Rose RouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Riverdale Avenue BooksPublisher Riverdale Avenue BooksWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm)...

New Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy's strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob. A renowned stylist of hyper-brevity in fiction, Fleur Jaeggy proves herself an even more concise master...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937512934Author Billy-Ray BelcourtFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Two Dollar RadioPublisher Two Dollar RadioWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 188mm...

As the planet's human numbers grow and environmental concerns proliferate, natural scientists, economists, and policy-makers are increasingly turning to new and old questions about families and kinship as matters of concern. From government programs...

A collection of personal essays from America's most revered essay writer, Joseph Epstein.America's greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of it. In these personal pieces, he takes on topics as varied as grieving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679724469Author Elizabeth Marshall ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

This collection of texts by writers, historians, philosophers, political analysts, and opinion leaders combines reflections on Ukrainian history and analyses of the present with outlines of conceptual ideas and life stories. The authors present a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156528658Author Alice WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Amistad PressPublisher Amistad PressWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 204mm * 135mm *...

The metropolis is a site of endless making and unmaking. From the attempt to imagine a 'city-symphony' to the cinematic tradition that runs from Walter Ruttmann to Terence Davies, Restless Cities traces the idiosyncratic character of the metropolitan...

When the State of Israel claims to represent all Jewish people, defenders of Israeli policy redefine antisemitism to include criticism of Israel. Antisemitism is harmful and real in our society. What must also be addressed is how the deployment of false...

This cutting-edge new book is the replacement for Folklife and Museums: Selected Readings which was published nearly thirty years ago in 1987. The editors of that volume, Patricia Hall and Charlie Seemann, are now joined by C. Kurt Dewhurst as a...

This book is the first to collect the most influential essays and lectures of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Published in a wide variety of venues, and often difficult to find, the pieces are brought together here for the first time in a one major volume,...

In 1932, at the peak of French colonialism, a group of Martiniquan students at the Sorbonne established a Caribbean Surrealist Group, and published a single issue of a journal called Legitime defense. Immediately banned by the authorities, it passed...

At issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as "part of the effort to define a female consciousness which is political, aesthetic, and erotic, and...

A collection of essays, "Gulf Women" provides a greater understanding of the history of the Gulf and the Arab world, as well as the history of Muslim women. The result of a project aimed at finding sources and studying the history of women in the region,...

At the heart of relativity theory, quantum mechanics, string theory, and much of modern cosmology lies one concept: symmetry. In Why Beauty Is Truth , world-famous mathematician Ian Stewart narrates the history of the emergence of this remarkable area...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408000Author Didier FassinFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 33mm

Have you ever been stunned by a low grade, when you were expecting an A or B? Are you struggling to make the jump from a second to a first? Doing Essays and Assignments gives you an insider's view on what tutors and professors really want when...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250321886Author Tom WolfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 138mm...

The incomparable Rebecca Solnit, author of more than a dozen acclaimed, prizewinning books of nonfiction including Men Explain Things To Me, brings the same dazzling writing to the essays in The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness; hailed by the...

In our culture of short-term work, mobile communications an rolling media it seems we are always on the move; but are w really getting anywhere? Non-Stop Inertia argues that this appearance of restless activity conceals and indeed maintains a deep...

In the spirit of works by Jia Tolentino and Anne Helen Peterson, a smart and incisive essay collection centered on the fashion industry-its history, its importance, why we wear what we wear, and why it matters-from Elle Magazine's fashion features...

FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Named a notable book of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review, Chicago Tribune, Time, and The Guardian As featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly, Well-Read Black Girl, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134442Author Audre LordeFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492426Author Mary CappelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Transit BooksPublisher Transit Books

WITH AN INTRODUCTION, PLUS EXTENSIVE NOTES AND REFERENCES BY HERMIONE LEE This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality. A Room...

Thomas Sowell takes aim at a range of legal, social, racial, educational, and economic issues in this latest collection of his controversial, never boring, always thought-provoking essays. From "gun control myths" to "mealy mouth media" to "free lunch...

Returns explores homecomings-the ways people recover and renew their roots. Engaging with indigenous histories of survival and transformation, James Clifford opens fundamental questions about where we are going, separately and together, in a globalizing,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394739540Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm)...

This book re-imagines law as ecolaw.The key insight of ecological thinking, that everything is connected to everything else - at least on the earth, and possibly in the cosmos - has become a truism of contemporary theory. Taking this insight as a...

'Hough's conversational prose reads like the voice of a blues singer, taking breaks between songs to narrate her heartbreak in verse, cajoling her audience to laugh to keep from crying' - The New York Times'Hough's writing will break your heart' - Roxane...

Millennial Generation vs. All Others"Millennials are killing it. It's time we stopped blaming them, and started thanking them. Caitlin Fisher explains why in this insightful, relatable book." L.S. Quinn, Founder, Reading Room CLE#1 New Release in...

'Urgent, compelling and lyrically, luminously beautiful . . . a brilliant, heart-rending read.' Psychologies MagazineBrown constellates the subjects that define her inside and out: a disabled and conspicuous body, a religious conversion, a missing twin,...

This is the first truly representative collection of texts by Helene Cixous. The substantial pieces range broadly across her entire oeuvre, and include essays, works of fiction, lectures and drama. Arranged helpfully in chronological order, the extracts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156588904Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams) 273g

After Shock marks the 50-year anniversary of Alvin Toffler's, Future Shock. The compendium of essays comprising this landmark volume offers insightful reflections on the classic text and presents compelling and surprising views of the future-through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807036235Author Judith PlaskowFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm *...