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Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernityby Elizabeth WilsonISBN 0520062124 (0-520-06212-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Archaeology of Knowledgeby Michel FoucaultISBN 0422736503 (0-422-73650-3)
Hardcover, Tavistock Publications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Archaeology of Knowledge'Book summary:In France, a country that awards its intellectuals the status other countries give their rock stars, Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of thinkers, one which also included Sartre, de Beauvoir and Deleuze. One of the great intellectual heroes of the twentieth century, Foucault was a man whose passion and reason were at the service of nearly every progressive cause of his time. From law and order, to mental health, to power and knowledge, he spearheaded public awareness of the dynamics that hold us all in thrall to a few powerful ideologies and interests. Arguably his finest work, Archaeology of Knowledge is a challenging but fantastically rewarding introduction to his ideas. [via]
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Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf? China Floats, Bush Sinks, the Scheme to Steal '08, No Child's Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class Warby Greg PalastISBN 0525949682 (0-525-94968-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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You won't find Palast in The New York Times (except its bestseller list), but you will read his reports on the hottest Web sites worldwide, hear him regularly on Air America and the Pacifica radio networks, and see his stories reappearing as the basis for Eminem's hit video "Mosh," Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, and sampled by a dozen of today's top platinum rock artists. [via]
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Bomb Cultureby Jeff NuttallISBN 0586080015 (0-586-08001-5)
Hardcover, Paladin
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Border Crossings: Cultural Workers And The Politics Of Educationby Henry GirouxISBN 0415904676 (0-415-90467-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Cultureby Stuart EwenISBN 0465021557 (0-465-02155-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture'Book summary:Captains of Consciousness offers a historical look at the origins of the advertising industry and consumer society at the turn of the twentieth century. For this new edition Stuart Ewen, one of our foremost interpreters of popular culture, has written a new preface that considers the continuing influence of advertising and commercialism in contemporary life. Not limiting his critique strictly to consumers and the advertising culture that serves them, he provides a fascinating history of the ways in which business has refined its search for new consumers by ingratiating itself into Americans' everyday lives. A timely and still-fascinating critique of life in a consumer culture.[via]More editions of Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture:
Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalismby Eva IllouzISBN 0520205715 (0-520-20571-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Cult of Information: A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinkingby Theodore RoszakISBN 0520085841 (0-520-08584-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Cultural Anthropology With Infotracby William A HavilandISBN 053427479X (0-534-27479-X)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introductionby John StoreyISBN 0582423635 (0-582-42363-5)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Thingsby Barry GlassnerISBN 0465014909 (0-465-01490-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things'Book summary:Americans are afraid of many things that shouldn't frighten them, writes Barry Glassner in this book devoted to exploding conventional wisdom. Thanks to opportunistic politicians, single-minded advocacy groups, and unscrupulous TV "newsmagazines," people must unlearn their many misperceptions about the world around them. The youth homicide rate, for instance, has dropped by as much as 30 percent in recent years, says Glassner--and up to three times as many people are struck dead by lightening than die by violence in schools. "False and overdrawn fears only cause hardship," he writes. In fact, one study shows that daughters of women with breast cancer are actually less likely to conduct self-examinations--probably because the campaign to increase awareness of the ailment also inadvertently heightens fears.
Although some sections are stronger than others, The Culture of Fear's examination of many nonproblems--such as "road rage," "Internet addiction," and airline safety--is very good. Glassner also has a sharp eye for what causes unnecessary goose bumps: "The use of poignant anecdotes in place of scientific evidence, the christening of isolated incidents as trends, depictions of entire categories of people as innately dangerous," and unknown scholars who masquerade as "experts." Although Glassner rejects the notion that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, he certainly shows we have much less to fear than we think. And isn't that sort of scary? --John J. Miller [via]
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Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define Americaby James Davison HunterISBN 0465015344 (0-465-01534-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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The Cyborg Handbookby Chris Hables Gray, Heidi J. Figuroa-Sarriera, Steven MentorISBN 0415908493 (0-415-90849-3)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed Americaby Erik LarsonISBN 0609608444 (0-609-60844-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America'Book summary:Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book's categorization to be sure that The Devil in the White City is not, in fact, a highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's construction, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor. Burnham's challenge was immense. In a short period of time, he was forced to overcome the death of his partner and numerous other obstacles to construct the famous "White City" around which the fair was built. His efforts to complete the project, and the fair's incredible success, are skillfully related along with entertaining appearances by such notables as Buffalo Bill Cody, Susan B. Anthony, and Thomas Edison. The activities of the sinister Dr. Holmes, who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around the time of the fair, are equally remarkable. He devised and erected the World's Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims. Combining the stories of an architect and a killer in one book, mostly in alternating chapters, seems like an odd choice but it works. The magical appeal and horrifying dark side of 19th-century Chicago are both revealed through Larson's skillful writing. --John Moe [via]
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Disney Discourse: Producing the Magic Kingdomby Eric SmoodinISBN 0415906164 (0-415-90616-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Thingsby Donald NormanISBN 0465051367 (0-465-05136-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things'Book summary:Did you ever wonder why cheap wine tastes better in fancy glasses? Why sales of Macintosh computers soared when Apple introduced the colorful iMac? New research on emotion and cognition has shown that attractive things really do work better, a fact fans of Don Norman's classic The Design of Everyday Things cannot afford to ignore.In recent years, the design community has focused on making products easier to use. But as Norman amply demonstrates in this fascinating and important new book, design experts have vastly underestimated the role of emotion on our experience of everyday objects.Emotional Design analyzes the profound influence of this deceptively simple idea, from our willingness to spend thousands of dollars on Gucci bags and Rolex watches to the impact of emotion on the everyday objects of tomorrow. In the future, will inanimate objects respond to human emotions? Is it possible to create emotional robots?Norman addresses these provocative questions--drawing on a wealth of examples and the latest scientific insights--in this bold exploration of the objects in our everyday world.[via]More editions of Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things:
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Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performativeby Judith ButlerISBN 0415915880 (0-415-91588-0)
Softcover, Routledge
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Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racismby Derrick BellISBN 0465068146 (0-465-06814-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism'Book summary:The noted civil rights activist uses allegory and historical example to present a radical vision of the persistence of racism in America. These essays shed light on some of the most perplexing and vexing issues of our day: affirmative action, the disparity between civil rights law and reality, the racist outbursts of some black leaders, the temptation toward violent retaliation, and much more.[via]More editions of Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism:
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Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slutby Emily WhiteISBN 0425191761 (0-425-19176-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the Worldby Greg CritserISBN 0618380604 (0-618-38060-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World'Book summary:What in American society has changed so dramatically that nearly 60 percent of us are now overweight, plunging the nation into what the surgeon general calls an "epidemic of obesity"? Greg Critser engages every aspect of American life - class, politics, culture, and economics - to show how we have made ourselves the second fattest people on the planet (after South Sea Islanders).[via]
Fat Land highlights the groundbreaking research that implicates cheap fats and sugars as the alarming new metabolic factor making our calories stick and shows how and why children are too often the chief metabolic victims of such foods. No one else writing on fat America takes as hard a line as Critser on the institutionalized lies we've been telling ourselves about how much we can eat and how little we can exercise. His expose of the Los Angeles schools' opening of the nutritional floodgates in the lunchroom and his examination of the political and cultural forces that have set the bar on American fitness low and then lower, are both discerning reporting and impassioned wake-up calls.
Disarmingly funny, Fat Land leaves no diet book - including Dr. Atkins's - unturned. Fashions, both leisure and street, and American-style religion are subject to Critser's gimlet eye as well. Memorably, Fat Land takes on baby-boomer parenting shibboleths - that young children won't eat past the point of being full and that the dinner table isn't the place to talk about food rules - and gives advice many families will use to lose.
Critser's brilliantly drawn futuristic portrait of a Fat America just around the corner and his all too contemporary foray into the diabetes ward of a major children's hospital make Fat Land a chilling but brilliantly rendered portrait of the cost in human lives - many of them very young lives - of America's obesity epidemic.More editions of Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World:
The Female Eunuchby Germaine GreerISBN 0553204432 (0-553-20443-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Feminine Mystiqueby Betty FriedanISBN 0440324971 (0-440-32497-1)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Feminine Mystique'Book summary:First published in 1963, The Feminine Mystique ignited a revolution that profoundly changed our culture, our conciousness, and our lives. Today it newly penetrates to the heart of isuues determining our lives -- and sounds a call to arms against the very real dangers of a newe feminine mystique in the economic and political turbulence of the 1990s.
Three decades later, the underlying issues raised by Betty Friedan strike at the core of the problems women still face at home and in the marketplace. As women continue to struggle for equality, to keep their hard-won gains, to find fulfillment in their careers, marriage and family, The Feminine Mystique remains the seminal conciousness-raising work of our times. [via]More editions of The Feminine Mystique:
Feminism and Youth Cultureby Angela McRobbieISBN 0415927552 (0-415-92755-2)
Softcover, Routledge
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Food and Culture: A Readerby Carole Counihan, Penny Van EsterikISBN 0415917107 (0-415-91710-7)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Food and Culture: A Reader'Book summary:Food touches everything important to people: it marks social differences and strengthens social bonds. Common to all peoples, yet it can signify very different things from table to table.
Food and Culture takes a global look at the social, symbolic and political-economic role of food. The stellar contributors to this reader examine some of the meanings of food and eating across cultures, with particular attention to how men and women define themselves differently through their foodways. Articles reveal how food habits and beliefs both present a microcosm of any culture and also contribute to our understanding of human behavior. Crossing many disciplinary boundaries, this reader includes the perspectives of anthropology, history, psychology, philosophy, and sociology.
The reader starts out by illustrating food's ability to convey symbolic meaning and communicates about a wide range of subjects. Next, the articles draw attention to how the practices of giving, receiving and refusing food initiate, solidify or rupture social bonds. Essays exploring the relation between body image, eating and sexuality in different societies give particular attention to the special and contradictory relation between women and food. Also demonstrated is the relation between the commodification of food, food industries, political power and colonial dominance.
Contributors include: Roland Barthes, Susan Bordo, Carolyn Walker Bynum, M.F.K. Fisher, Anna Freud, Jack Goody, Claude Levi-Strauss, Margaret Mead, and Elisa J. Sobo. [via]More editions of Food and Culture: A Reader:
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Food and Culture: A Readerby Penny Van Esterik, Carole CounihanISBN 0415917093 (0-415-91709-3)
Hardcover, Routledge
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Food and Culture takes a global look at the social, symbolic and political-economic role of food. The stellar contributors to this reader examine some of the meanings of food and eating across cultures, with particular attention to how men and women define themselves differently through their foodways. Articles reveal how food habits and beliefs both present a microcosm of any culture and also contribute to our understanding of human behavior. Crossing many disciplinary boundaries, this reader includes the perspectives of anthropology, history, psychology, philosophy, and sociology.
The reader starts out by illustrating food's ability to convey symbolic meaning and communicates about a wide range of subjects. Next, the articles draw attention to how the practices of giving, receiving and refusing food initiate, solidify or rupture social bonds. Essays exploring the relation between body image, eating and sexuality in different societies give particular attention to the special and contradictory relation between women and food. Also demonstrated is the relation between the commodification of food, food industries, political power and colonial dominance.
Contributors include: Roland Barthes, Susan Bordo, Carolyn Walker Bynum, M.F.K. Fisher, Anna Freud, Jack Goody, Claude Levi-Strauss, Margaret Mead, and Elisa J. Sobo. [via]More editions of Food and Culture: A Reader:
The Future of Nostalgiaby Svetlana BoymISBN 0465007082 (0-465-00708-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Future of Nostalgia'Book summary:Can one be nostalgic for the home one never had? Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? Can we know what we are nostalgic for? In the seventeenth century, Swiss doctors believed that opium, leeches, and a trek through the Alps would cure nostalgia. In 1733 a Russian commander, disgusted with the debilitating homesickness rampant among his troops, buried a soldier alive as a deterrent to nostalgia. In her new book, Svetlana Boym develops a comprehensive approach to this elusive ailment. Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia that connect national biography and personal self-fashioning in the twenty-first century. She guides us through the ruins and construction sites of post-communist cities-St. Petersburg, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague-and the imagined homelands of exiles-Benjamin, Nabokov, Mandelstam, and Brodsky. From Jurassic Park to the Totalitarian Sculpture Garden, from love letters on Kafka's grave to conversations with Hitler's impersonator, Boym unravels the threads of this global epidemic of longing and its antidotes.[via]-
Habits of the Heartby Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, Steven M. TiptonISBN 0520053885 (0-520-05388-5)
Hardcover, University of California Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Habits of the Heart'Book summary:Habits of the Heart is required reading for anyone who wants to understand how religion contributes to and detracts from America's common good. An instant classic upon publication in 1985, it was reissued in 1996 with a new introduction describing the book's continuing relevance for a time when the country's racial and class divisions are being continually healed and ripped open again by religious people. Habits of the Heart describes the social significance of faiths ranging from "Sheilaism" (practiced by a California nurse named Sheila) to conservative Christianity. It's thoroughly readable, theologically respectful, and academically irreproachable. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Lifeby Robert N. Bellah, William M. Sullivan, Richard Madsen, Ann Swidler, Steven M. TiptonISBN 0520205685 (0-520-20568-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life'Book summary:Habits of the Heart is required reading for anyone who wants to understand how religion contributes to and detracts from America's common good. An instant classic upon publication in 1985, it was reissued in 1996 with a new introduction describing the book's continuing relevance for a time when the country's racial and class divisions are being continually healed and ripped open again by religious people. Habits of the Heart describes the social significance of faiths ranging from "Sheilaism" (practiced by a California nurse named Sheila) to conservative Christianity. It's thoroughly readable, theologically respectful, and academically irreproachable. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Happily Ever Afterby Jack David ZipesISBN 0415918510 (0-415-91851-0)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Happily Ever After'Book summary:Addressing his ongoing concerns, the author of this text examines the socialization of children, the impact of the fairy tale on children and adults, and the future development of the fairy tale as a film. As a result of analyzing the historical trajectory of storytelling and the literary fairy tale, the essays in this volume move from the 16th century to the present, between different cultures and societies, and from specific analyses to general syntheses. [via]
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Honkyby Dalton ConleyISBN 0520215869 (0-520-21586-9)
Hardcover, University of California Press
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The Identity in Questionby John RajchmanISBN 0415906180 (0-415-90618-0)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Identity in Question'Book summary:The words 'identity', 'diversity', 'multiculturalism', and 'Eurocentrism' have become familiar to us through a process of political and cultural transformation. In the United States, a great national debate rages over fears that the country will fall apart and sacrifice its free speech to 'political correctness'. In Europe, a related discussion has focused on the resurgence of xenophobia and ethnic nationalism. Undoubtedly, these debates touch on issues which, after the collapse of Cold War geopolitics, are likely to remain with us for some time. The Identity in Question provides a theoretical analysis of this issue and the questions it raises about critical theory. The contributors to this collection look behind the familiar words of the discourse to rethink notions of universality and agency and the traditions of liberalism, nationalism and pluralism. They investigate the meanings of democracy and 'radical democracy'. They also ask how such notions relate to questions of sexual orientation. [via]
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In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Cultureby George SteinerISBN 0571096042 (0-571-09604-2)
Hardcover, Faber
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Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicateby Steven A. JohnsonISBN 0465036805 (0-465-03680-5)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate'Book summary:Steven Johnson turns the tables on the way we consider our computer interfaces. While many discussions focus on how interfaces help us work by adapting to our ways of thinking and our real-world metaphors, Johnson jumps from there to look at how our thinking and world view are altered by our computer interfaces.
He begins with the simple: The mouse improved the spatial nature of our computers by letting us move, by the proxy of our pointers, within the screen. The windows metaphor made cyberspace a 3-D space. And while we tend to think about the graphical nature of interfaces, Johnson also explores the textual side and how it has changed the way we work with the written word.
Interface Culture then goes on to show how, with each advance in technology, the interface shapes our perceptions in new ways. Where mice and windows turned the computing world into cyberspace, agents have created a perception of software as personality. On the larger scale, Johnson sees these tools, originally built on noncyber metaphors, as creating, in their turn, a new set of metaphors for looking at the rest of the world. And while he finds it exciting, he spends considerable time on such shortcomings in our approach to interfacing: what he considers the excessive emphasis on graphics elements at the cost of anything textual. Johnson, who is the editor of the cerebral Feed Web site and whom Newsweek called one of the most influential people in cyberspace, has written an intelligent book about interface design, its relationship to the real world, and how it affects our perception of worlds both cyber and physical. [via]
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Internet Cultureby David PorterISBN 0415916844 (0-415-91684-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Familiesby Walker Evans, James AgeeISBN 0618127496 (0-618-12749-6)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families'Book summary:Just what kind of book is Let Us Now Praise Famous Men? It contains many things: poems; confessional reveries; disquisitions on the proper way to listen to Beethoven; snippets of dialogue, both real and imagined; a lengthy response to a survey from the Partisan Review; exhaustive catalogs of furniture, clothing, objects, and smells. And then there are Walker Evans's famously stark portraits of depression-era sharecroppers--photographs that both stand apart from and reinforce James Agee's words.
Assigned to do a story for Fortune magazine about sharecroppers in the Deep South, Agee and Evans spent four weeks living with a poor white tenant family, winning the Burroughs's trust and immersing themselves in a sharecropper's daily existence. Given a first draft of the resulting article, the editors at Fortune quite understandably threw up their hands--as did several other editors who subsequently worked with a later book-length manuscript. The writing was contrary. It refused to accommodate itself to the reader, and at times it positively bristled with hostility. (What other book could take Marx as the epigraph and then announce: "These words are quoted here to mislead those who will be misled by them"?) Response to the book was puzzled or unfriendly, and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men sputtered out of print only a few short years after its publication. It took the 1960s, and a vogue for social justice, to bring Agee's masterwork the audience it deserved.
Yet the book is far more interesting--aesthetically and morally--than the sort of guilty-liberal tract for which it is often mistaken. On an existential level, Agee's text is a deeply felt examination of what it means to suffer, to struggle to live in spite of suffering. On a personal level, it is the painful, beautifully written portrait of one man's obsession. In its collaboration with Evans's photographs, the book is also a groundbreaking experiment in form. In the end, however, it is more than merely the sum of its parts. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is, quite simply, a book unlike any other, simmering with anger and beauty and mystery. --Mary Park [via]
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Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Taleby Catherine OrensteinISBN 0465041264 (0-465-04126-4)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Medieval Civilization, 400-1500by Jacques Le GoffISBN 0631175660 (0-631-17566-0)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medieval Civilization, 400-1500'Book summary:This one thousand year history of the civilization of western Europe has already been recognized in France as a scholarly contribution of the highest order and as a popular classic. Jacques Le Goff has written a book which will not only be read by generations of students and historians, but which will delight and inform all those interested in the history of medieval Europe. Part one, Historical Evolution , is a narrative account of the entire period, from the barbarian settlement of Roman Europe in the fifth, sixth and seventh centuries to the war-torn crises of Christian Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Part two, Medieval Civilization , is analytical, concerned with the origins of early medieval ideas of culture and religion, the constraints of time and space in a pre-industrial world and the reconstruction of the lives and sensibilities of the people during this long period. Medieval Civilization combines the narrative and descriptive power characteristic of Anglo-Saxon scholarship with the sensitivity and insight of the French historical tradition. [via]
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Microphone Fiends: Youth Music & Youth Cultureby Tricia Rose, Andrew RossISBN 0415909082 (0-415-90908-2)
Softcover, Routledge
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Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Sensesby Michael TaussigISBN 0415906873 (0-415-90687-3)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horrorby David J. SkalISBN 0571199968 (0-571-19996-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Multicultural Manners: New Rules of Etiquette for a Changing Societyby Norine DresserISBN 0471118192 (0-471-11819-2)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Multicultural Manners: Essential Rules Of Etiquette For The 21st Centuryby Norine DresserISBN 0471684287 (0-471-68428-7)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Nationalisms and Sexualitiesby Andrew Parker, Mary Russo, Doris Sommer, Patricia YaegerISBN 0415904331 (0-415-90433-1)
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The Nine Parts Of Desire: The Hidden World Of Islamic Womenby Geraldine BrooksISBN 0606300023 (0-606-30002-3)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellionsby Gloria SteinemISBN 0451155009 (0-451-15500-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japanby Anne AllisonISBN 0520219902 (0-520-21990-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialoguesby Sarah Harasym, Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakISBN 0415901707 (0-415-90170-7)
Softcover, Routledge
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Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Radical Reassessment of Freudian Psychoanalysisby Juliet MitchellISBN 0465046088 (0-465-04608-8)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Rationalizing Culture: Ircam, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Gardeby Georgina BornISBN 0520202163 (0-520-20216-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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Reading Rodney King Reading Urban Uprisingby Roberts Gooding-WilliamsISBN 0415907357 (0-415-90735-7)
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Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Moviesby Bell HooksISBN 0415918243 (0-415-91824-3)
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The Rice Room: Growing Up Chinese-American-From Number Two Son to Rock'N'Rollby Ben Fong-TorresISBN 0452274125 (0-452-27412-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism, and Fifties Americaby Marjorie Garber, Rebecca L. WalkowitzISBN 0415911206 (0-415-91120-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Cultureby Walter KendrickISBN 0520207297 (0-520-20729-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Seeing Through Clothesby Anne HollanderISBN 0520082311 (0-520-08231-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Serpent and the Rainbowby Wade DavisISBN 0446343870 (0-446-34387-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Skipping Toward Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in Americaby Dan SavageISBN 0452284163 (0-452-28416-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America'Book summary:Dan Savage is irreverent, irrepressible, and opinionated. He's held his own on Politically Incorrect, told tales on This American Life, continues to write a beloved nationally syndicated column-and he's had it up to here (my hand is higher than my head) with the moral, conservative scolds who proclaim America is slouching towards Gomorrah (to use Robert Bork's phrase). Are we really that bad?
Yes, we are! And in Skipping Towards Gomorrah, Dan Savage eviscerates those cynics as he commits each of the Seven Deadly Sins himself (or tries to) and finds those everyday Americans who take particular delight in their sinful pursuits. Among them:
Greed: Gamblers reveal secrets behind outrageous fortune.
Lust: "We're swingers!"-you won't believe who's doing it.
Gluttony: Dan meets gluttons with attitude at a pro-fat conference.
Sloth: Leave it to Dan to find a way to celebrate this sin that will get him in trouble with his mother.
Anger: Texans shoot off some rounds and then listen to Dan fire off on his own about guns, control, and the Second Amendment.
Envy: Meet the rich-then be glad you're not one of them.
Pride: You'll never look at a gay pride parade the same way again.
Couple all this sinning with a unique history of the Seven Deadly Sins, a new interpretation of the biblical stories of Sodom and Gomorrah, and enough Bork, Bennett, Buchanan, et al, bashing to more than make up for their incessant carping, and you've got the most provocative book of the fall. [via]More editions of Skipping Toward Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America:
Social Communication in Advertising: Persons, Products and Images of Well-Beingby William Leiss, Stephen Kline, Sut Jhally, Jackie BotterillISBN 0415966760 (0-415-96676-0)
Softcover, Routledge
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Stephen King's Danse Macabreby Stephen KingISBN 0425104338 (0-425-10433-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stephen King's Danse Macabre'Book summary:In the fall of 1978 (between The Stand and The Dead Zone), Stephen King taught a course at the University of Maine on "Themes in Supernatural Literature." As he writes in the foreword to this book, he was nervous at the prospect of "spending a lot of time in front of a lot of people talking about a subject in which I had previously only felt my way instinctively, like a blind man." The course apparently went well, and as with most teaching experiences, it was as instructive, if not more so, to the teacher as it was to the students. Thanks to a suggestion from his former editor at Doubleday, King decided to write Danse Macabre as a personal record of the thoughts about horror that he developed and refined as a result of that course.
The outcome is an utterly charming book that reads as if King were sitting right there with you, shooting the breeze. He starts on October 4, 1957, when he was 10 years old, watching a Saturday matinee of Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. Just as the saucers were mounting their attack on "Our Nation's Capital," the movie was suddenly turned off. The manager of the theater walked out onto the stage and announced, "The Russians have put a space satellite into orbit around the earth. They call it ... Spootnik."
That's how the whole book goes: one simple, yet surprisingly pertinent, anecdote or observation after another. King covers the gamut of horror as he'd experienced it at that point in 1978 (a period of about 30 years): folk tales, literature, radio, good movies, junk movies, and the "glass teat". It's colorful, funny, and nostalgic--and also strikingly intelligent. --Fiona Webster [via]
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The Story of Bby Daniel QuinnISBN 0553379011 (0-553-37901-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, And the Politics of Rememberingby Marita SturkenISBN 0520206207 (0-520-20620-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophreniaby Felix Guattari, Gilles DeleuzeISBN 0485120585 (0-485-12058-5)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Totem and Tabooby Sigmund FreudISBN 048640434X (0-486-40434-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Two Culturesby C.P. SnowISBN 052109576X (0-521-09576-X)
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Undoing Genderby Judith ButlerISBN 0415969239 (0-415-96923-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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Wanderings : Chaim Potok's History of the Jewsby Chaim PotokISBN 0449215822 (0-449-21582-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Watching Dallas: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imaginationby Ien AngISBN 0416416403 (0-416-41640-3)
Softcover, Methuen
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The Way We Areby Margaret VisserISBN 0571198856 (0-571-19885-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Visser traces her interest in "the anthropology of everyday life" to a plastic packet of mustard she encountered when she first arrived in North America from Britain in 1964. She and her companion "sat and looked at the mustard missile, and knew that we had reached a foreign place, an unpredictable and infinitely weird environment." Since then, Visser has produced a string of best-selling, award-winning books including Much Depends on Dinner, The Rituals of Dinner, and The Geometry of Love, "focusing on small humble objects" to "tease out of them philosophies, choices, prejudices, causes, contradictions, tragedies, absurdities." Thus, in The Way We Are Visser re-envisions the heart--"a terrifying, bloody, pumping muscle that throbs and shudders inside us"--as a "multivalent metaphor": seat of courage for the ancient Greeks, of compassion for the modern North American, something that can be, depending on circumstances, "in the right place," "broken," "eaten out" or "worn on the sleeve." She exposes Santa Claus as a phallic symbol: "dressed in red, coming down the chimney, and leaving a present in the stocking." And in chewing gum she sees "an arresting symbol of modernity": "gum is cud-like and primitive, yet it is now impeccably technological." --Russell Prather [via]
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The Way We Talk Now: Commentaries on Language and Culture from Npr's Fresh Airby Geoffrey NunbergISBN 0618116036 (0-618-11603-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinityby Bell HooksISBN 0415969271 (0-415-96927-1)
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, And Other Confusions Of Our Timeby Michael ShermerISBN 061391662X (0-613-91662-X)
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Women and the Welfare Stateby Elizabeth WilsonISBN 0422760609 (0-422-76060-9)
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Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnographyby James Clifford, George E. MarcusISBN 0520057295 (0-520-05729-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography A School of American Research, Advanced Seminarby James Clifford, George E. MarcusISBN 0520056523 (0-520-05652-3)
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