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Writing by Marguerite Duras
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.22Writing, one of Marguerite Duras's last works, is a meditation on the process of writing and on her need for solitude in order to do it. In the five short pieces collected in this volume, she... -
The User Unconscious: On Affect, Media, and Measure by Patricia Ticineto Clough
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.23Wide-ranging essays and experimental prose forcefully demonstrate how digital media and computational technologies have redefined what it is to be human Over the past decade, digital media has... -
The New American Exceptionalism by Donald E. Pease
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52For a half century following the end of World War II, the seemingly permanent cold war provided the United States with an organizing logic that governed nearly every aspect of American society and... -
A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture by John M. Hagedorn
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.47For the more than a billion people who now live in urban slums, gangs are ubiquitous features of daily life. Though still most closely associated with American cities, gangs are an entrenched,... -
The City, Revisited: Urban Theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York by Dennis R. Judd
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53The contributors to The City, Revisited trace an intellectual history that begins in 1925 with the publication of the influential classic The City, engaging in a spirited debate about whether the... -
Artist Animal by Steve Baker
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.65Animals have always been compelling subjects for artists, but the rise of animal advocacy and posthumanist thought has prompted a reconsideration of the relationship between artist and animal. In... -
Nuclear Desire: Power and the Postcolonial Nuclear Order by Shampa Biswas
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53Since its enactment in 1970, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), has become one node of a massive, sprawling, multibillion-dollar regime that is considered essential to slowing the... -
Photographic Architecture in the Twentieth Century by Claire Zimmerman
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $31.32One hundred years ago, architects found in the medium of photography-so good at representing a building's lines and planes-a necessary way to promote their practices. It soon became apparent,... -
Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture by P. David Marshall
Booksplease Price: $37.41Simultaneously celebrated and denigrated, celebrities represent not only the embodiment of success, but also the ultimate construction of false value. Celebrity and Power questions the impulse to... -
Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming by Carly Thomsen
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52A questioning of the belief in the power of LGBTQ visibility through the lives of queer women in the rural Midwest Today most LGBTQ rights supporters take for granted the virtue of being "out, loud,... -
Couture and Consensus: Fashion and Politics in Postcolonial Argentina by Regina A. Root
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53Following Argentina's revolution in 1810, the dress of young patriots inspired a nation and distanced its politics from the relics of Spanish colonialism. Fashion writing often escaped the notice of... -
Scammer's Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica by Jovan Scott Lewis
RRP: $112.23Booksplease Price: $90.78Tells the story of Jamaican "scammers" who use crime to gain autonomy, opportunity, and repair There is romance in stealing from the rich to give to the poor, but how does that change when those... -
Hacked Transmissions: Technology and Connective Activism in Italy by Alessandra Renzi
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $25.99Mapping the transformation of media activism from the seventies to the present dayHacked Transmissions is a pioneering exploration of how social movements change across cycles of struggle and... -
In And Out Of Morocco: Smuggling and Migration in a Frontier Boomtown by David McMurray
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52A revealing inquiry into how global culture is lived locally.Every summer for almost forty years, tens of thousands of Moroccan emigrants from as far away as Norway and Germany descend on the... -
Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions by Michael D. Snediker
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53Michael Snediker offers a much-needed counterpoint to queer theoretical discourse, which has long privileged melancholy, self-shattering, incoherence, shame, and the death drive. Recovering the forms... -
The Red Land to the South: American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico by James H. Cox
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53The forty years of American Indian literature taken up by James H. Cox-the decades between 1920 and 1960-have been called politically and intellectually moribund. On the contrary, Cox identifies a... -
Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children's Literature by Kenneth B. Kidd
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.23Children's literature has spent decades on the psychiatrist's couch, submitting to psychoanalysis by scores of scholars and popular writers alike. Freud in Oz turns the tables, suggesting that... -
Vampyroteuthis Infernalis: A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste by Vilem Flusser
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.50How far apart are humans from animals-even the "vampire squid from hell"? Playing the scientist/philosopher/provocateur, Vilem Flusser uses this question as a springboard to dive into a literal and a... -
Ambient Media: Japanese Atmospheres of Self by Paul Roquet
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53Ambient Media examines music, video art, film, and literature as tools of atmospheric design in contemporary Japan, and what it means to use media as a resource for personal mood regulation. Paul... -
The Uberfication of the University by Gary Hall
RRP: $11.61Booksplease Price: $10.47Even after the 2008 financial crisis, neoliberalism has been able to advance its program of privatization and deregulation. The Uberfication of the University analyzes the emergence of the sharing... -
Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes by James Doucet-Battle
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52A bold new indictment of the racialization of science Decades of data cannot be ignored: African American adults are far more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than white adults. But has science gone... -
For the Love of Cod: A Father and Son's Search for Norwegian Happiness by Eric Dregni
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.90A journey to find Norway's supposed bliss makes for a comic travelogue that asks, seriously, what makes Norwegians so damn happy-and does it translate? Norway is usually near or at the top of the... -
The Spectral Jew: Conversion and Embodiment in Medieval Europe by Steven F. Kruger
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.52Medieval European culture encompassed Judaic, Christian, Muslim, and pagan societies, forming a complex matrix of religious belief, identity, and imagination. Through incisive readings of a broad... -
Ghosts: Death'S Double And The Phenomena Of Theatre by Alice Rayner
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53Making spirits visible has been a part of the theatrical experience since at least the sixteenth century. Instead of illusions, however, ghostly doubles in theatre are materially real and pervasive... -
The Color of Stone: Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America by Dr. Charmaine A. Nelson
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.23Nineteenth-century neoclassical sculpture was a highly politicized international movement. Based in Rome, many expatriate American sculptors created works that represented black female subjects in... -
From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe by Peter Y. Paik
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.89"I read Peter Y. Paik's lucid, graceful, ruthless book in one single astonished sitting. I scarred it all over with arrows and exclamation points, so I can read it again as soon as possible." -Bruce... -
Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America by Dianne Harris
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.98A rare exploration of the racial and class politics of architecture, Little White Houses examines how postwar media representations associated the ordinary single-family house with middle-class... -
The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan: Right-Wing Movements and National Politics by Rory McVeigh
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52Rediscovering the Ku Klux Klan as a national movement in the 1920sIn 1915, forty years after the original Ku Klux Klan disbanded, a former farmer, circuit preacher, and university lecturer named... -
Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology by Jussi Parikka
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53Since the early nineteenth century, when entomologists first popularized the unique biological and behavioral characteristics of insects, technological innovators and theorists have proposed insects... -
Children of the Northlights by Ingri D'Aulaire
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.92From the beloved authors of D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths and other classics comes a new edition of one of Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaires's most beguiling children's books. Long out of print,... -
Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings by Mary Siisip Geniusz
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.62Mary Siisip Geniusz has spent more than thirty years working with, living with, and using the Anishinaabe teachings, recipes, and botanical information she shares in Plants Have So Much to Give Us,... -
The Global Shelter Imaginary: Ikea Humanitarianism and Rightless Relief by Andrew Herscher
RRP: $11.61Booksplease Price: $10.47Examines how the humanitarian order advances a message of moral triumph and care while abandoning the dispossessed Prompted by a growing number of refugees and other displaced people, intersections... -
The Owls Are Not What They Seem: Artist as Ethologist by Arnaud Gerspacher
RRP: $11.61Booksplease Price: $11.40Toward a posthumanist art and ethologyThe Owls Are Not What They Seem is a selective history of modern and contemporary engagements with animals in the visual arts and how these explorations relate... -
Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $25.99Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human Twentieth-century neuroscience fixed the brain as the... -
How Noise Matters to Finance N. Adriana Knouf 9781517901578
RRP: $11.61Booksplease Price: $11.40As scores of crises over the past century have shown, the stock market is manipulable and manipulated. The market is composed of human-made machines, which are affected by a lack of predictability... -
Red Gold: The Managed Extinction of the Giant Bluefin Tuna by Jennifer E. Telesca
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25Illuminating the conditions for global governance to have precipitated the devastating decline of one of the ocean's most majestic creatures The International Commission for the Conservation of... -
Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene by Bruce Clarke
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.23A groundbreaking look at Gaia theory's intersections with neocybernetic systems theory Often seen as an outlier in science, Gaia has run a long and varied course since its formulation in the 1970s... -
Literary Theory: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $18.24"This concise and lucid volume offers a satisfying survey of all the major theories, from structuralism in the 1960s to deconstruction today, that have made academic criticism both intriguing and... -
Virtue, Fortune, and Faith: A Genealogy of Finance by Marieke De Goede
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $27.09Less than two centuries ago finance - today viewed as the center of economic necessity and epitome of scientific respectability - stood condemned as disreputable fraud. How this change in status came... -
The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer: Changing Cultures of Disease and Activism by Maren Klawiter
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.92For nearly forty years, feminists and patient activists have argued that medicine is a deeply individualizing and depoliticizing institution. According to this view, medical practices are incidental...