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AIDS Alibis: Sex, Drugs, and Crime in the Americasby Stephanie C. KaneISBN 156639628X (1-56639-628-X)
Softcover, Temple Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'AIDS Alibis: Sex, Drugs, and Crime in the Americas'Book summary:"AIDS Alibis" tackles the cultural landscape upon which AIDS, often accompanied by poverty, drug addiction, and crime, proliferates on a global scale. Stephanie Kane layers stories of individuals and events - from Chicago to Belize City, to cyberspace - to illustrate the paths of HIV infection and the effects of environment, government intervention, and social mores. Linking ordinary yet kindred lives in communities around the globe, Kane challenges the assumptions underlying the use of police and courts to solve health problems. The stories reveal the dynamics that determine how the policy decisions of white-collar health-care professionals actually play out in real life. By focusing on life-changing social problems, the narratives highlight the contradictions between public health and criminal law. Look at how HIV has transformed our social consciousness, from intimate touch to institutional outreach. But, Kane argues, these changes are dwarfed by the United States' refusal to stop the war on drugs, in effect misdirecting resources and awareness. "AIDS Alibis" combines empirical and interpretive methods in a path-breaking attempt to recognize the extent to which coercive institutional practices are implicated in HIV transmission patterns. Kane shows how the virus feeds on the politics of inequality and indifference, even as it exploits the human need for intimacy and release. Author note: Stephanie Kane is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Indiana University and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology. She is the author of "The Phantom Gringo Boat: Shamanic Discourse and Development in Panama". [via]
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Air Wars: Television Advertising In Election Campaigns 1952-2004by Darrell M. WestISBN 1568029330 (1-56802-933-0)
Softcover, Cq Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Air Wars: Television Advertising In Election Campaigns 1952-2004'Book summary:In the newly revised and updated fourth edition of Air Wars, Darrell West continues his in-depth examination of political advertising in election campaigns. Following the evolution of campaign advertising from its start in 1952 to its use in contemporary races, West reveals how candidates plan advertising campaigns, how the media covers those campaigns, and, ultimately, how voters are influenced by these advertising efforts.
With new material from the 2004 campaigns, this edition is fully up to date in both content and analysis. Count on in-depth coverage of everything from ad buys and a review of issue-advocacy advertising to content analyses and media coverage of campaign ads. Also in the fourth edition, find case studies of ad appeals, new material on Senate and House election ads, and examination of the affect of groups such as the Swift Boat Veterans and MoveOn.org on the 2004 presidential campaign.
Written in a clear, concise manner, the book encourages students to assess current campaign advertising looking for demonization, association, stereotyping, and codewords. Real-world examples and ad stills illustrate specific points that help stimulate classroom discussion and get students thinking critically about the impact of campaign advertising on modern elections. [via]
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Air Wars: Television Advertising in Election Campaigns, 1952-1996by Darrell M. WestISBN 1568025807 (1-56802-580-7)
Softcover, Cq Pr
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All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarceratedby Nell BernsteinISBN 1565849523 (1-56584-952-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Cultureby Hal FosterISBN 1565847423 (1-56584-742-3)
Softcover, New Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture'Book summary:For the past few decades Hal Foster's critical gaze has encompassed the increasingly complex machinery of the culture industry. His observations push the boundaries of cultural criticism to establish a vantage point from which the seemingly disparate agendas of artists, patrons, and critics have a telling coherence. The Anti-Aesthetic is a touchstone volume for postmodern debate and theory. Though the cultural stakes and terms have changed over the last decade, this collection still illuminates--perhaps now even more lucidly--a vital current in contemporary criticism. Contributors: Jean Baudrillard, Douglas Crimp, Kenneth Frampton, Jrgen Habermas, Fredric Jameson, Rosalind Krauss, Craig Owens, Edward Said, and Gregory Ulmer. [via]
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Asia in New York City: A Cultural Travel GuideISBN 1566912172 (1-56691-217-2)
Softcover, Avalon Travel Pub
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The Asian American Movementby William WeiISBN 1566391830 (1-56639-183-0)
Softcover, Temple Univ Pr
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The Asian American Movement: A Social Historyby William WeiISBN 1566390494 (1-56639-049-4)
Hardcover, Temple University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Asian American Movement: A Social History'Book summary:Active for more than two decades, the Asian American movement began a middle-class reform effort to achieve racial equality, social justice, and political empowerment. In this first history and in-depth analysis of the Movement, William Wei traces to the late 1960s, the genesis of an Asian American identity, culture, and activism. Wei analyzes the Asian American women's movement, the alternative press, Asian American involvement in electoral politics. Interviews with many key participants in the Movement and photographs of Asian American demonstrations and events enliven this portrayal of the Movement's development, breadth, and conflicts. Author note: William Wei teaches modern Chinese history and Asian American studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Born in Tinghai, China, and raised in New York City, Dr. Wei is also the author of "Counterrevolution in China: The Nationalists in Jiangxi during the Soviet Period". [via]
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Banditsby E. J. HobsbawmISBN 1565846192 (1-56584-619-2)
Softcover, New Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bandits'Book summary:Back in print, the groundbreaking classic on robber-rebels from "the best known living historian in the world" (The Times [London]). First published in 1969, the now-classic Bandits inspired a whole new field of historical study and brought its author popular acclaim. Bandits transcend the label of criminals; they are robbers and outlaws elevated to the status of avengers and champions of social justice. Some, like Robin Hood, Rob Roy, and Jesse James, are famous throughout the world, the stuff of story and myth. Others, from Balkan haiduks and Indian dacoits to Brazilian congaceiros, are known only to their own countries' people. In his celebrated study of these fascinating figures, now updated with a new introduction, Eric Hobsbawm, "one of the few genuinely great historians of our century," according to the New Republic, spans four hundred years and four continents, setting these folk heroes against the ballads, legends, and films they have inspired. The result is "a dazzling historical squib, fizzing with ideas and strange stories" (The Guardian). [via]
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Black Popular Cultureby Gina DentISBN 1565844599 (1-56584-459-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Popular Culture'Book summary:A Village Voice Best Book of the Year, Black Popular Culture includes "spirited debate among African American artists and cultural critics about issues from essentialism to sexuality" (Publishers Weekly). Discussions in Contemporary Culture is an award-winning series copublished with the Dia Center for the Arts in New York City. These volumes offer rich and timely discourses on a broad range of cultural issues and critical theory. The collection covers topics from urban planning to popular culture and literature, and continually attracts a wide and dedicated readership. [via]
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Black Teachers on Teachingby Michele FosterISBN 156584453X (1-56584-453-X)
Softcover, New Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Teachers on Teaching'Book summary:Black Teachers on Teaching is an honest and compelling account of the politics and philosophies involved in the education of black children during the last fifty years. Michele Foster talks to those who were the first to teach in desegregated southern schools and to others who taught in large urban districts, such as Boston, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. All go on record about the losses and gains accompanying desegregation, the inspirations and rewards of teaching, and the challenges and solutions they see in the coming years. [via]
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionaryby Eric S. RaymondISBN 1565927249 (1-56592-724-9)
Hardcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar takes its title from an essay Raymond read at the 1997 Linux Kongress. The essay documents Raymond's acquisition, re-creation, and numerous revisions of an e-mail utility known as fetchmail. Raymond engagingly narrates the fetchmail development process while elaborating on the ongoing bazaar development method he uses with the help of volunteer programmers. The essay smartly spares the reader from the technical morass that could easily detract from the text's goal of demonstrating the efficacy of the open-source, or bazaar, method in creating robust, usable software.
Once Raymond has established the components and players necessary for an optimally running open-source model, he sets out to counter the conventional wisdom of private, closed-source software development. Like superbly written code, the author's arguments systematically anticipate their rebuttals. For programmers who "worry that the transition to open source will abolish or devalue their jobs," Raymond adeptly and factually counters that "most developer's salaries don't depend on software sale value." Raymond's uncanny ability to convince is as unrestrained as his capacity for extrapolating upon the promise of open-source development.
In addition to outlining the open-source methodology and its benefits, Raymond also sets out to salvage the hacker moniker from the nefarious connotations typically associated with it in his essay, "A Brief History of Hackerdom" (not surprisingly, he is also the compiler of The New Hacker's Dictionary). Recasting hackerdom in a more positive light may be a heroic undertaking in itself, but considering the Herculean efforts and perfectionist motivations of Raymond and his fellow open-source developers, that light will shine brightly. --Ryan Kuykendall [via]
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The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabsby David Pryce-JonesISBN 1566634407 (1-56663-440-7)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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Countervisions: Asian-American Film Criticismby Darrell Y. Hamamoto, Sandra LiuISBN 1566397766 (1-56639-776-6)
Softcover, Temple Univ Pr
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Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movementby Neil Gotanda, Garry Peller, Kimberle Crenshaw, Kendall ThomasISBN 1565842715 (1-56584-271-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Lettersby Frances Stonor SaundersISBN 1565846648 (1-56584-664-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters'Book summary:It is well known that the CIA funded right-wing intellectuals after World War II; fewer know that it also courted individuals from the center and the left in an effort to turn the intelligentsia away from communism and toward an acceptance of "the American way." Frances Stonor Saunders sifts through the history of the covert Congress for Cultural Freedom in The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters. The book centers on the career of Michael Josselson, the principal intellectual figure in the operation, and his eventual betrayal by people who scapegoated him. Sanders demonstrates that, in the early days, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the emergent CIA were less dominated by the far right than they later became, and that the idea of helping out progressive moderates--rather than being Machiavellian--actually appealed to the men at the top.
Many intellectuals were still drawn to Stalin's Russia. Saunders superbly traces the crisis of conscience that McCarthyism and its associated book-burning caused, and the subsequent rise of more moderate ideals. This exhaustive account, despite neglecting some important side issues, is an essential book. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technologyby Gretchen BenderISBN 1565844963 (1-56584-496-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The De-Valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Childrenby William BennettISBN 1561792241 (1-56179-224-1)
Hardcover, Tyndale House Pub
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The De-Valuing of America the Fight for Our Culture and Our Children: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Childrenby William J. BennettISBN 1561793604 (1-56179-360-4)
Softcover, Tyndale House Pub
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Discussions in Contemporary Cultureby Hal FosterISBN 1565844637 (1-56584-463-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangenessby David Weeks, Jamie JamesISBN 1568361564 (1-56836-156-4)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangeness'Book summary:This book summarizes findings from the first systematic study of "eccentrics": highly talented and unusual people who are somewhere between "normal" and "nuts". This is a domain occupied by genuine geniuses and charming crackpots whose common feature is that they refuse to hold commonly held beliefs or refuse to act in accordance with the norms of society. Although the book would have been a more compelling read if it treated each individual in more depth, and its conclusions more convincing if there were more tables of data, it is nonetheless a delightful book that will give you either more respect for the eccentric (if you believe that you are "normal") or greater confidence in yourself (if you suspect--or know--that you are eccentric). Recommended. [via]
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The Encyclopedia of Native American Religionsby Arlene Hirschfelder, Paulette MolinISBN 1567311016 (1-56731-101-6)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Encyclopedia of Native American Religions'Book summary:A welcome addition to any reference section. With over 1,200 entries, this treatment of Native American beliefs, ceremonies, and major religious systems is in-depth, yet easy to read. From the opening explanation of Abishabis ("Small Eyes"), the principal prophet of a mid-1800s religious movement, to Zuni Salt Lake, New Mexico, the reputed home of a Holy Person who traveled around the country leaving deposits of salt wherever she rested, the authors provide quick information on sacred objects, societies, leaders, and more. The black-and-white photographs and charts, while few, are a nice addition. The bibliography is extensive. [via]
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English Is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americasby Coco FuscoISBN 1565842456 (1-56584-245-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United Statesby Priscilla Murolo, A. B. Chitty, Joe SaccoISBN 1565847768 (1-56584-776-8)
Softcover, New Pr
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Gender on Planet Earthby Ann OakleyISBN 1565847687 (1-56584-768-7)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gender on Planet Earth'Book summary:An iconoclastic feminist's provocative analysis of gender inequality's destructive effects on our society and our planet.
Influential author and social scientist Ann Oakley argues that men and women have inherited and reinforce a system of gender differences that has a destructive effect on them, their shared humanity, and the planet. By showing us how every aspect of our lives is dominated by male/female power structures, she forces us to take a step back and see how and why gender inequality has thrown our society out of balance.
In Gender on Planet Earth, Oakley argues that the persistence of traditional gender values prevents us from leading more ethical and humane lives. Governed by "delusional systems" such as psychoanalysis and sociobiology, we assume that the imbalance of the sexes is the inevitable consequence of our genes, psyches, and unchangeable economic motives. Drawing from a broad array of literature, Oakley combines personal narrative with social commentary and eye-opening statistics to provide a provocative account of gender today. [via]
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The Greek Wayby Edith HamiltonISBN 1568495021 (1-56849-502-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Hearts and Minds : The Controversy over Laboratory Animalsby Julian M. GrovesISBN 1566394759 (1-56639-475-9)
Hardcover, Temple University Press
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Hearts and Minds: The Controversy over Laboratory Animalsby Julian McAllister GrovesISBN 1566394767 (1-56639-476-7)
Softcover, Temple Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hearts and Minds: The Controversy over Laboratory Animals'Book summary:Media coverage of angry protestors and acts of sabotage claim so much public attention that few of us question the stereotypes that have developed around the animal research controversy. Those who support animal testing are routinely dismissed as mad scientists, emotionless logicians, or sadists with little regard for nonhuman creatures, while animal protection activists are dismissed as hysterics, antisocial radicals, or simple folk who prize rabbits and rats over human beings. Julian McAllister Groves takes a fresh look at the arguments and talks to people on both sides to discover what really motivates them. He probes into their ideas and emotions to understand how people get involved and why the arguments become so polarized. Living in a university town that is an important center of biomedical research, Groves could not ignore the intense opposition to research using animals. As he began to analyze the formation and activities of local protest groups, he started to attend meetings and talk to activists about their beliefs. To his surprise, many activists emphasized rational and scientific justifications for their commitment to the movement. Conversely, scientists who spoke with him frequently discussed their use of lab animals in the context of their feelings about pets or a particular animal that they had become attached to. Hearts and Minds looks past the placards and sound bites to get to the intellectual and psychological reasons that people use to explain their positions. It discards worn generalizations and offers a nuanced portrait of people who are seriously engaged in reconciling their ethics and their behavior. Author note: Julian McAllister Groves is a lecturer at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in the Division of Social Science. [via]
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Hell's Bellesby BallengerISBN 1567313086 (1-56731-308-6)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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Hiroshige in Tokyo: The Floating World of Edoby Julian BicknellISBN 1566408032 (1-56640-803-2)
Hardcover, Pomegranate
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Hmong Means Free: Life Laos and Americaby Sucheng ChanISBN 1566391636 (1-56639-163-6)
Softcover, Temple Univ Pr
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I, Too, Sing America, Bk. OfISBN 1563052504 (1-56305-250-4)
Softcover, Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated
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Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Lifeby E. J. HobsbawmISBN 1565849655 (1-56584-965-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life'Book summary:Eric Hobsbawm has been widely acclaimed as one of the greatest living historians. Called "a lyrical, pungent, and provocative memoir" by Publishers Weekly, Interesting Times offers a personal tour through what Hobsbawm terms "the most extraordinary and terrible century in human history." The book takes us from his birth in Alexandria, Egypt, and early schooling in Weimar Berlin to his student days as a Cambridge Red and Apostle at King's College. Hobsbawm took E.M. Forster to hear Lenny Bruce, demonstrated with Bertrand Russell against nuclear arms, translated for Che Guevara in Havana, and inaugurated the modern history of banditry. With Interesting Times, we see the making of one of the Left's most important intellectuals, and the history of the twentieth century through the unforgiving eye of one of its most intensely engaged participants. [via]
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An Introduction to Mythology (1921)by Lewis SpenceISBN 1564596036 (1-56459-603-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Knotted Tongues: Stuttering in History and the Quest for a Cureby Benson BobrickISBN 1568361211 (1-56836-121-1)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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Kon-Tikiby Thor HeyerdahlISBN 1568490100 (1-56849-010-0)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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The Land Where the Blues Beganby Alan LomaxISBN 1565847393 (1-56584-739-3)
Softcover, New Pr
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Lonesome Rangers: Homeless Minds, Promised Lands, Fugitive Culturesby John LeonardISBN 156584694X (1-56584-694-X)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japanby Alan BoothISBN 1568361483 (1-56836-148-3)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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Louie Louie: The History and Mythology of the World's Most Famous Rock 'N' Roll Song; Including the Full Details of Its Torture and Persecution at Tby Dave MarshISBN 1562828657 (1-56282-865-7)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Societyby Lucy R. LippardISBN 1565842480 (1-56584-248-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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In The Lure of the Local Lucy R. Lippard weaves together cultural studies, history, geography, and contemporary art to provide a fascinating examination of our multiple senses of place.
Divided into five partsAround Here; Manipulating Memory; Down to Earth: Land Use; The Last Frontiers: Cities and Suburbs; and Looking Aroundthe book extends far beyond the confines of the art worlds, including issues of community, land use, perceptions of nature, how we produce the landscape, and how the landscape affects our lives. Praised by critics and readers alike, she consistently makes unexpected connections between contemporary art and its political, social, and cultural contexts. [via]More editions of Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society:
Making History: Writings on History and Cultureby E.P. ThompsonISBN 1565842170 (1-56584-217-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Manners, Customs and History of the Highlanders of Scotland/No 1871144by W. ScottISBN 1566191505 (1-56619-150-5)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble
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Math and Science Across Cultures: Activities and Investigations from the Exploratoriumby Maurice Bazin, Modesto Tamez, Exploratorium Teacher Institute (San Francisco, Calif.)ISBN 1565845412 (1-56584-541-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Too often, the study of science, math, and technology is limited to the major successes of the Western world. Yet people all over the world have observed and explored nature and developed technologies to help them in their everyday lives.
From the creators of the national bestseller and Parent's Choice Book Award-winner The Explorabook (over one million copies sold) comes Math and Science Across Cultures, designed to help teachers, parents, and youth-group leaders use hands-on activities to explore the math and science of different cultural traditions, and to make these subjects more relevant and approachable for children of all backgrounds. With instructions in this book, you can:
" Construct a Brazilian carnival instrument and investigate the science of sound.
" Play a peg solitaire game from Madagascar and learn about mathematical patterns.
" Experiment with a traditionally prepared cup of Chinese tea and learn about energy flow.
" Count like an Egyptian, decipher Mayan mathematical symbols, and decode the ancient Inca number system of knotted cords. [via]More editions of Math and Science Across Cultures: Activities and Investigations from the Exploratorium:
The Miseducation of Womenby James TooleyISBN 1566635446 (1-56663-544-6)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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Monstrous Possibilityby Curtis WhiteISBN 1564781909 (1-56478-190-9)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monstrous Possibility'Book summary:In Monstrous Possibility Curtis White provides a unique collection of essays written in styles ranging from the criti-fictional to the deeply theoretical. These essays are often funny, usually polemical, and always urgent. White creates in these essays a lucid perspective on what it means to be a writer and a human being in the so-called postmodern moment.
Intent on describing and accounting for the impact of theory and pomo on contemporary fiction writing, White contemplates the coincidence of the simultaneous arrival in the 1960s and '70s on American university campuses of writers, poets, continental literary theory and that monstrous creature "Postmodernism."
White's efforts lead him in surprising directions: revealing arguments about postmodernism's politics and ethics; telling critiques of the anti-humanist theories of Louis Althusser, Jean Baudrillard and post-Marxism; trenchant appeals for the continued relevance of Marcuse and Theodor Adorno; and a funny but finally dead-serious reinvocation of the idea of Beauty. [via]
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The Mysteries of Mithra: (1910)by Franz CumontISBN 1564596907 (1-56459-690-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mysteries of Mithra: (1910)'Book summary:Contents: Preface to the French Edition; The Origins of Mithraism; The Dissemination of Mithraism in the Roman Empire; Mithra and the Imperial Power of Rome; The Doctrine of the Mithraic Mysteries; The Mithraic Liturgy, Clergy and Devotees; Mithraism and the Religions of the Empire; Mithraic Art; Index. [via]
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Native Sonby WrightISBN 156849694X (1-56849-694-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Native Son'Book summary:Bigger Thomas is doomed, trapped in a downward spiral that will lead to arrest, prison, or death, driven by despair, frustration, poverty, and incomprehension. As a young black man in the Chicago of the '30s, he has no way out of the walls of poverty and racism that surround him, and after he murders a young white woman in a moment of panic, these walls begin to close in. There is no help for him--not from his hapless family; not from liberal do-gooders or from his well-meaning yet naive friend Jan; certainly not from the police, prosecutors, or judges. Bigger is debased, aggressive, dangerous, and a violent criminal. As such, he has no claim upon our compassion or sympathy. And yet...
A more compelling story than Native Son has not been written in the 20th century by an American writer. That is not to say that Richard Wright created a novel free of flaws, but that he wrote the first novel that successfully told the most painful and unvarnished truth about American social and class relations. As Irving Howe asserted in 1963, "The day Native Son appeared, American culture was changed forever. It made impossible a repetition of the old lies [and] brought out into the open, as no one ever had before, the hatred, fear and violence that have crippled and may yet destroy our culture."
Other books had focused on the experience of growing up black in America--including Wright's own highly successful Uncle Tom's Children, a collection of five stories that focused on the victimization of blacks who transgressed the code of racial segregation. But they suffered from what he saw as a kind of lyrical idealism, setting up sympathetic black characters in oppressive situations and evoking the reader's pity. In Native Son, Wright was aiming at something more. In Bigger, he created a character so damaged by racism and poverty, with dreams so perverted, and with human sensibilities so eroded, that he has no claim on the reader's compassion:
"I didn't want to kill," Bigger shouted. "But what I killed for, I am! It must've been pretty deep in me to make me kill! I must have felt it awful hard to murder.... What I killed for must've been good!" Bigger's voice was full of frenzied anguish. "It must have been good! When a man kills, it's for something... I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em. It's the truth..."
Wright's genius was that, in preventing us from feeling pity for Bigger, he forced us to confront the hopelessness, misery, and injustice of the society that gave birth to him. --Andrew Himes [via]More editions of Native Son:
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Neo-Conservatism: The Autobiography of an Ideaby Irving KristolISBN 1566632285 (1-56663-228-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Neo-Conservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea'Book summary:This fascinating book by one of America's leading public intellectuals spans nearly half a century of writing, with essays on sex, politics, and religion. Irving Kristol has long been considered the godfather of neoconservatism, a political persuasion that breathed intellectual life into the moribund Republican Party during the 1970s and helped make Ronald Reagan's ascendancy possible. But because Kristol spent the bulk of his career in the highbrow journalistic world of essays and commentary, he never authored a full book that defines his mode of thinking or traces its development. This collection of essays is the closest thing there is, and it's a real treat: smart, often counterintuitive, and full of good writing. As Kristol notes on the opening pages, "An intellectual who didn't write struck me as only half an intellectual." And Kristol is clearly a full intellectual. Much of the writing here has appeared elsewhere--in Commentary, where Kristol served as an editor; The Wall Street Journal, where he regularly contributes to the op-ed page; and The Public Interest, which he founded and still edits. The best part of the book, however, is an original essay, "An Autobiographical Memoir." In it, Kristol sketches his intellectual growth, which began while he was a young man attending neo-Trotskyite meetings in Brooklyn (where he met his wife, the historian Gertrude Himmelfarb) and eventually took him to Washington, D.C., where today he is a fixture at right-of-center political gatherings. For readers interested in conservative politics, Neoconservatism is a keeper. --John J. Miller [via]
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The New Inquisition : Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Scienceby Robert A. WilsonISBN 1561840025 (1-56184-002-5)
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Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Cultureby Robert G. LeeISBN 1566397537 (1-56639-753-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture'Book summary:As Edward W. Said noted in his groundbreaking study, Orientalism, the Asian is the eternal "other." Asian Americans, whether immigrants or native born, are subject to a variety of overlapping stereotypes that label them as "not American." What is "American" and what is not is defined in part by popular culture. In Orientals, Robert G. Lee analyses a broad range of artifacts of American pop culture--from silent films to blockbuster movies, popular magazines to pulp fiction, and stage dramas to 19th-century songs--to reveal the history of these definitions.
Lee identifies six representations of Asian Americans--the pollutant, the coolie worker, the deviant, the yellow peril, the model minority, and the gook--and notes how, when, and why they emerged. As Lee notes, "each of these representations was constructed in a specific historical moment, marked by a shift in class relations accompanied by cultural crisis." For example, the image of the subservient "coolie" emerged as an undercutting threat to the developing white working class in the 1870s and 1880s, while the image of the Asian as model minority appeared in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s and was held up to African Americans and Latinos as a "successful case of 'ethnic' assimilation" and a model for nonpolitical upward mobility. Well illustrated throughout, Lee's impressive study uses the Asian American experience as a window through which to examine what makes a person a "real" American. Orientals is an excellent addition to the scholarly literature. --C.B. Delaney [via]
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Paradigm Lost: A Cultural and Systems Theoretical Critique of Political Economyby Kenneth Michael StokesISBN 1563244845 (1-56324-484-5)
Softcover, M E Sharpe Inc
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Policing Popby Reebee Garofalo, Martin CloonanISBN 1566399904 (1-56639-990-4)
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Populuxeby Thomas HineISBN 1567313167 (1-56731-316-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Populuxe'Book summary:The decade from 1954 to 1964 was one of America's great shopping sprees. Never before were there so many people able to acquire so many things, and never before was there such a choice. Thomas Hine calls it Populuxe--populism and popularity and luxury, plus a totally unnecessary "e" to give it a little class; the word itself is as synthetic as the world it denotes. With the help of more than 250 amazing and amusing pictures in black and white and color (and what colors!), Thomas Hine explores, recaptures and explains this glorious, vanished world of hopes and dreams and cock-eyed optimism. His book is both a celebration of a singular (and slightly bizarre) aesthetic and a revelation of America's not-so-distant past. [via]
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Portnoy's Complaintby Philip RothISBN 156849324X (1-56849-324-X)
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A Queer Readerby Patrick HigginsISBN 1565842111 (1-56584-211-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Queer Reader'Book summary:A Queer Reader is a rich collection of quotes and short excerpts about the gay experience through the centuries, from Plato to Andy Warhol. Arranged chronologically and drawing on sources from Michelangelo's sonnets to a speech in the House of Lords, from graphic graffiti found in Pompeii to a Playboy interview with David Bowie, A Queer Reader presents gay history as never before. [via]
Race to Incarcerateby Mauer MarcmISBN 1565846834 (1-56584-683-4)
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Race to Incarcerate: The Sentencing Projectby Marc MauerISBN 1565844297 (1-56584-429-7)
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Remaking Historyby Barbara KrugerISBN 1565845005 (1-56584-500-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Remaking History'Book summary:A Village Voice Best Book of the Year, this collection of rich and diverse essays by contributors such as Jim Hoberman, Edward Said, and Cornel West, are concerned with imperialism in a variety of forms, ranging from the geographical to the sexual. Discussions in Contemporary Culture is an award-winning series copublished with the Dia Center for the Arts in New York City. These volumes offer rich and timely discourses on a broad range of cultural issues and critical theory. The collection covers topics from urban planning to popular culture and literature, and continually attracts a wide and dedicated readership. [via]
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Republic of Platoby Thomas TaylorISBN 1564590240 (1-56459-024-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Republic of Plato'Book summary:This is Thomas Taylor's adept translation of Plato's Republic. Plato's "crowning achievement of art and philosophy." "The idea that runs through the Republic is that the individual presents almost the same features and qualties as society, on a smaller scale, and in his argument Plato first considers the state and thence makes his deductions as to the individual." "Besides the enduring value of the Republic as a work of art, its philosophical and ethical teaching is of particular interest in the present disordered condition of social and speculative ideas. [via]
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Rethinking Schools: An Agenda for Changeby David Levine, Robert Peterson, Robert Lowe, David P. Levine, Rita TenorioISBN 1565842154 (1-56584-215-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rethinking Schools: An Agenda for Change'Book summary:An anthology of essential reading from the foremost journal of progressive education. Rethinking Schools includes sections on rethinking language arts and social studies curricula, testing and tracking, national education policy, antibias and multicultural education, and building school communities. These articles are practical essays by classroom teachers as well as educators such as Henry Louis Gates Jr., Bill Bigelow, Lisa D. Delpit, and Howard Zinn. Resource lists of relevant books, videos, organizations, and materials on each topic make this a powerful tool for implementing successful school reform. [via]
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The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters: Aspects of English Literary Life Since 1800by John GrossISBN 1566630002 (1-56663-000-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters: Aspects of English Literary Life Since 1800'Book summary:In this new edition of his landmark book, John Gross traces the shifting fortunes of the men who shaped literary opinion in England during the Victorian, Edwardian, and contemporary eras. He brings together famous or forgotten critics and editorsprophets, aesthetes, statesmen, dons, radicals, social climbers, idealists, gossipmongers, and literary lionsand explores not only their critical ideas but also their personalities, careers, social backgrounds, and politics. He looks at "the higher journalism;" the expansion of the reading public, the byways of British liberalism, and the rise of literature as an academic subject, and the impact of modernism. In all a remarkable survey, to which Mr. Gross has now added updates on several literary careers, the new style of critics who have evolved from the universities, and the dominant role of the media. "A brilliant account of English literary culture which is as engaging as it is illuminating"Lionel Trilling. "Extremely readable.... The book is strewn with marvelous bits: deft aperçus, biographical portraits of great subtlety and force, wit, commonsensical intelligence everywhere. It is a book that no one who cares about the state of literature can afford to neglect."Joseph Epstein. [via]
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Roads to Sataby Alan BoothISBN 1568361874 (1-56836-187-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roads to Sata'Book summary:ALAN BOOTH'S CLASSIC OF MODERN TRAVEL WRITING
Traveling only along small back roads, Alan Booth traversed Japan's entire length on foot, from Soya at the country's northernmost tip, to Cape Sata in the extreme south, across three islands and some 2,000 miles of rural Japan. The Roads to Sata is his wry, witty, inimitable account of that prodigious trek.
Although he was a city person-he was brought up in London and spent most of his adult life in Tokyo - Booth had an extraordinary ability to capture the feel of rural Japan in his writing. Throughout his long and arduous trek, he encountered a variety of people who inhabit the Japanese countryside-from fishermen and soldiers, to bar hostesses and school teachers, to hermits, drunks, and tramps. His wonderful and often hilarious descriptions of these encounters are the highlights of these pages, painting a multifaceted picture of Japan from the perspective of an outsider, but with the knowledge of an insider.
The Roads to Sata is travel writing at its best, illuminating and disarming, poignant yet hilarious, critical but respectful. Traveling across Japan with Alan Booth, readers will enjoy the wit and insight of a uniquely perceptive guide, and more importantly, they will discover a new face of an often misunderstood nation. [via]More editions of Roads to Sata:
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Room of Ones' Ownby Virginia WoolfISBN 1568493665 (1-56849-366-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Room of Ones' Own'Book summary:"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."First published in 1929, Virginia Woolf's pioneering work on women in literature is an accessible yet fiercely astute essay. It is a crystallization of the intelligent analysis behind her novels, and confirms her as a writer not only of style, but of undeniable substance. Ranging from discussing Austen's pandering to a male writing style, to imagining the dreadful fate of Shakespeare's talented, intelligent sister, Woolf makes the topic an enjoyable journey through her imagination, filling in for the undocumented in female history, and exploring the loss to the literary landscape in her own entertaining, convincing prose. The recording also includes a booklet with further information, including a contribution by Ali Smith, author of The Accidental. Unabridged.[via]More editions of Room of Ones' Own:
Rousseau and Revolution: A History of Civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the Remainder of Europe from 1715, to 1789by Will Durant, Ariel DurantISBN 1567310214 (1-56731-021-4)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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S/Heby Minnie Bruce PrattISBN 1563410591 (1-56341-059-1)
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San Francisco and Northern Californiaby Linda Williams, Jamie JensenISBN 1564586456 (1-56458-645-6)
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Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dressby Anne HollanderISBN 1568361017 (1-56836-101-7)
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Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literatureby Dorothy AllisonISBN 1563410443 (1-56341-044-3)
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Soul of Politics: A Practical and Prophetic Vision for Changeby Jim WallisISBN 1565842049 (1-56584-204-9)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Sportsexby Toby MillerISBN 1566399947 (1-56639-994-7)
Softcover, Temple Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sportsex'Book summary:"Sportsex" examines the landscape of sports writ globally. And it is about the way sport allows men and women but mostly men to consider their looks, their vitality, and their relationship to their gender in ways that would be considered taboo in any other context. Miller pays particular attention to the way celebrity is considered around the world through a number of different athletic activities. Along the way he also offers his own personal connection to sport as both a researcher and recipient of its abuses and pleasures. In a world where everything is considered in its relationship to globalization, sport is one of the few arenas of social life that can be concretely seen in international terms. "Sportsex" opens that world up in a way that is accessible and significant for anyone interested in the shape of our emerging world culture. Author note: Toby Miller is Professor of Cultural Studies and Cultural Policy at New York University, and is the author of numerous books on media, culture, and sport, including "The Avengers and Technologies of Truth: Cultural Citizenship and the Popular Media". [via]
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Steal This Book and Get Life Without Parole: And Get Life Without Paroleby Bob HarrisISBN 1567511708 (1-56751-170-8)
Softcover, Common Courage Pr
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Stone Butch Bluesby Leslie FeinbergISBN 156341029X (1-56341-029-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stone Butch Blues'Book summary:Published in 1993, this brave, original novel is considered to be the finest account ever written of the complexities of a transgendered existence. Woman or man? Thats the question that rages like a storm around Jess Goldberg, clouding her life and her identity. Growing up differently gendered in a blue--collar town in the 1950s, coming out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist 60s, deciding to pass as a man in order to survive when she is left without work or a community in the early 70s. This powerful, provocative and deeply moving novel sees Jess coming full circle, she learns to accept the complexities of being a transgendered person in a world demanding simple explanations: a he-she emerging whole, weathering the turbulence. [via]
To the Finland Stationby Edmund WilsonISBN 1568495749 (1-56849-574-9)
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Toxic Sludge Is Good for You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industryby Sheldon Rampton, John C. StauberISBN 1567510612 (1-56751-061-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Toxic Sludge Is Good for You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry'Book summary:Sure, many of us in this modern world are cynical. The most cynical may even suspect that the news is manipulated and massaged by sponsors, that corporations act in their best interests, that political campaigns are determined not by votes, but by bucks, and that we don't get "all the news that's fit to print" but instead, "all the news that gets the ink". But even the most media-savvy amongst you will be awed by the behind-the-scenes descriptions of the Public Relations industry in action so masterfully described in this book. If you want your eyes to be opened, open them upon the pages of this book. (But remember: there are some very important people counting on you, and they really would prefer that you didn't ever hear about this book, much less buy it.) [via]
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Toxic Sludge Is Good for You!: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industryby John Stauber, Sheldon Rampton, Mark DowieISBN 1567510604 (1-56751-060-4)
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Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s Americaby Alison J. ClarkeISBN 1560989203 (1-56098-920-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America'Book summary:From Wonder Bowls to Ice-Tup molds to Party Susans, Tupperware has become an icon of suburban living. Tracing the fortunes of Earl Tupper's polyethylene containers from early design to global distribution, Alison J. Clarke explains how Tupperware tapped into potent commercial and social forces, becoming a prevailing symbol of late twentieth-century consumer culture.
Invented by Earl Tupper in the 1940s to promote thrift and cleanliness, the pastel plasticwares were touted as essential to a postwar lifestyle that emphasized casual entertaining and celebrated America's material abundance. By the mid-1950s the Tupperware party, which gathered women in a hostess's home for lively product demonstrations and sales, was the foundation of a multimillion-dollar business that proved as innovative as the containers themselves. Clarke shows how the party plan direct sales system, by creating a corporate culture based on women's domestic lives, played a greater role than patented seals and streamlined design in the success of Tupperware. [via]More editions of Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America:
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Understanding Comicsby Scott McCloudISBN 1563895579 (1-56389-557-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Understanding Comics'Book summary:As all good card-carrying comic-book fans know, their sheer passion will never overcome narrow-minded critics and their baying cries of derision. There is far more to this perpetually underrated medium than a mix of art and prose. With this indispensable, spellbinding tome, writer/artist Scott McCloud rises to the challenge of dissecting what remains the most enigmatic of art forms. After all, says McCloud, "No other art form gives so much to its audience while asking so much from them as well". Over the course of 215 impeccably formed pages, McCloud joyously exposes and deconstructs a hidden world of icons in a most literate and valid manner. His charming guidance finds a place where Time and Space is effortlessly malleable and the reader is both a willing accomplice and necessary vessel for comics' singular magic. Cunningly presented in comic form, McCloud (or his comic equivalent) conducts a journey that spans thousands of years, taking in art from Prehistoric Man to the Egyptians to Van Gogh to Jack Kirby. Never has psychological and cultural analysis been so understandably clear, beautifully aided by clever visuals and his truly infectious love for the medium. By the end of this funny, charming, rare and exciting book, you'll not doubt the notion that a comic book "...is a vacuum into which our identity and awareness are pulled ... an empty shell that we inhabit which enables us to travel to another realm". A fine exchange for a little faith and a world of imagination. --Danny Graydon [via]
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Victorian Minds: A Study of Intellectuals in Crisis and Ideologies in Transitionby Gertrude HimmelfarbISBN 1566630770 (1-56663-077-0)
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Vision and Visualityby Hal FosterISBN 1565844610 (1-56584-461-0)
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When the Kissing Had to Stop: Cult Studs, Khmer Newts, Langley Spooks, Techno-Geeks, Video Drones, Author Gods, Serial Killers, Vampire Media, Alien Sperm-Suckers, Satanic therapisby John LeonardISBN 1565846435 (1-56584-643-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japanby Ivan MorrisISBN 1568360290 (1-56836-029-0)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan'Book summary:The World of the Shining Prince, Ivan Morris's widely acclaimed portrait of the ceremonious, inbred, melancholy world of ancient Japan, has been a standard in cultural studies for nearly thirty years. Using as a frame of reference The Tale of Genji and other major literary works from Japan's Heian period, Morris recreates an era when woman set the cultural tone. Focusing on the world of the emperor's court-the world so admired by Virginia Woolf and others-he describes the politics, society, religious life, and superstitions of the times, providing detailed portrayals of the daily life of courtiers, the cult of beauty they espoused, and the intricate relations between the men and women of this milieu. [via]
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Zen and Japanese Cultureby Daisetz T. SuzukiISBN 1567311245 (1-56731-124-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zen and Japanese Culture'Book summary:Zen and Japanese Culture is one of the twentieth century's leading works on Zen, and a valuable source for those wishing to understand its concepts in the context of Japanese life and art. In simple, often poetic, language, Daisetz Suzuki describes his conception of Zen and its historical evolution. He connects Zen to the philosophy of the samurai, and subtly portrays the relationship between Zen and swordsmanship, haiku, tea ceremonies, and the Japanese love of nature. Suzuki's contemplative work is enhanced by anecdotes, poetry, and illustrations showing silk screens, calligraphy, and examples of architecture.
Since its original publication in 1938, this important work has played a major role in shaping conceptions of Zen's influence on Japanese traditional arts. Richard Jaffe's introduction acquaints a new generation of readers with Suzuki's life and career in both Japan and America. Jaffe discusses how Zen and Japanese Culture was received upon its first publication and analyzes the book in light of contemporary criticism, especially by scholars of Japanese Buddhism.
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