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AIDS As an Apocalyptic Metaphor in North Americaby Susan J. PalmerISBN 0802076165 (0-8020-7616-5)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essaysby William CalinISBN 0802092721 (0-8020-9272-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays'Book summary:Northrop Frye was one of the most influential 20th-century literary scholars, and Anatomy of Criticism is his most influential book. In this rigorous and readable work of scholarship, Frye feistily champions literary criticism's legitimacy and independence--both by differentiating criticism from other academic disciplines, and by banishing any conception of the critic as "parasite or jackal" (this latter view, Frye notes, is still quite popular, "especially among artists"). The book began as something quite different, and took nearly a decade to write. Frye published his first major work--Fearful Symmetry, on the Romantic poet William Blake--in 1947 and had set out to produce a second tome on Edmund Spencer. But the critical insights accumulating in his fertile mind were too insistent, so the book on Spencer became Anatomy of Criticism.
Anatomy of Criticism remains provocative and enlightening in no small part because of its ambitious breadth. Frye's comprehension of literary history is breathtaking, as is the complexity but also the clarity of his thought. Four chapters treat historical, ethical, archetypal, and rhetorical modes of criticism, bracketed by a "Polemical Introduction" and a "Tentative Conclusion." Frye's ultimate aim is to confirm for the reader that literary criticism is a science in its own right: "Criticism," he says, "is to art what history is to action and philosophy is to wisdom.... And just as there is nothing which the philosopher cannot consider philosophically, and nothing which the historian cannot consider historically, so the critic should be able to construct and dwell in a conceptual universe of his own." Rather than promote any particular critical approach over another, he tries to construct a theoretical structure sturdy and expansive enough to accommodate and inter-relate a broad range of critical approaches. --Russell Prather [via]
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The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Romeby Numa Denis Fustel De CoulangesISBN 0801823048 (0-8018-2304-8)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome'Book summary:Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: - £ vjum- - (" f BOOK SECOND. THE FAMILY. CHAPTER I. RelJgifiaWS.a.Jtlie- constituent Principle of the ancient Family. If we transport ourselves in thought to those ancient generations of men, we find in each house an altar, and around this altar the family assembled. The family meets every morning to address its first prayers to the sacred fire, and in the evening to invoke it for a lasttime. In the course of the day the members are once more assembled near the fire for the meal, of which they partake piously after prayer and libation. In all these religious acts, hymns, which their fathers have handed down, are sung in common by the family. Outside the Chouse, neiar at hand, in a neighboring fieldTtEere is a tomb the second home of this family. Thereseveral, generations of ancestors repose together; deathjiasLnotseparated them. They remain grouped in this second existence, and continue to form an in dissoluble family.1 1 The use of family tombs by the ancients is incontestable; it disappeared only when the beliefs relative to the worship of the dead became obscured. The words raifot nurot, riiifos Tuj Between the living part and the dead part of the family there is only this distance of a few steps which separates the house from the tomb. On certain days, which are determined for each one by his domestics religion, the living assemble near their ancestors ; they offer them the funeral meal, pour out milk and wine to them, lay out cakes and fruits, or burn the flesh of a victim to them. In gxchangeJbr these offerings they ask protection; they call these ancestors their gods, ami ask them to render the fields fertile, the house prosperous, and their hearts virtuous. Generation alone was not the foundation of the ancient family. What proves this... [via]
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Animal Victims in Modern Fictionby Marian ScholtmeijerISBN 0802077080 (0-8020-7708-0)
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As If Learning Mattered: Reforming Higher Educationby Richard E. MillerISBN 0801485282 (0-8014-8528-2)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Back to Nature: The Arcadian Myth in Urban Americaby Peter J. SchmittISBN 0801840139 (0-8018-4013-9)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Being Thereby Jerzy N. KosinskiISBN 0802136346 (0-8021-3634-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Being There'Book summary:A modern classic now available from Grove Press, Being There is one of the most popular and significant works from a writer of international stature. It is the story of Chauncey Gardiner - Chance, an enigmatic but distinguished man who emerges from nowhere to become an heir to the throne of a Wall Street tycoon, a presidential policy adviser, and a media icon. Truly "a man without qualities," Chance's straightforward responses to popular concerns are heralded as visionary. But though everyone is quoting him, no one is sure what he's really saying. And filling in the blanks in his background proves impossible. Being There is a brilliantly satiric look at the unreality of American media culture that is, if anything, more trenchant now than ever. [via]
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The Bias of Communicationby Harold A. InnisISBN 0802068391 (0-8020-6839-1)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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The Book of Absinthe: A Cultural Historyby Phil BakerISBN 0802139930 (0-8021-3993-0)
Softcover, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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Cambodiaby Brian FawcettISBN 0802110827 (0-8021-1082-7)
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The Century of Sex: Playboy's History of the Sexual Revolution, 1900-1999by James R. Petersen, Hugh M. HefnerISBN 0802116523 (0-8021-1652-3)
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Classics and Trash: Traditions and Taboos in High Literature and Popular Modern Genresby Harriet HawkinsISBN 0802068138 (0-8020-6813-8)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the Worldby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0802713262 (0-8027-1326-2)
Hardcover, Walker & Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World'Book summary:[via]The codfish. Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been spurred by it, national diets have been based on it, economies and livelihoods have depended on it, and the settlement of North America was driven by it. To the millions it has sustained, it has been a treasure more precious than gold. Indeed, the codfish has played a fascinating and crucial role in world history.
Cod spans a thousand years and four continents. From the Vikings, who pursued the codfish across the Atlantic, and the enigmatic Basques, who first commercialized it in medieval times, to Bartholomew Gosnold, who named Cape Cod in 1602, and Clarence Birdseye, who founded an industry on frozen cod in the 1930s, Mark Kurlansky introduces the explorers, merchants, writers, chefs, and of course the fishermen, whose lives have interwoven with this prolific fish. He chronicles the fifteenth-century politics of the Hanseatic League and the cod wars of the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. He embellishes his story with gastronomic detail, blending in recipes and lore from the Middle Ages to the present.
And he brings to life the cod itself: its personality, habits, extended family, and ultimately the tragedy of how the most profitable fish in history is today faced with extinction.
From fishing ports in New England and Newfoundland to coastal skiffs, schooners, and factory ships across the Atlantic; from Iceland and Scandinavia to the coasts of England, Brazil, and West Africa, Mark Kurlansky tells a story that brings world history and human passions into captivating focus.More editions of Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World:
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Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in Americaby Bradford W. WrightISBN 0801874505 (0-8018-7450-5)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America'Book summary:As American as jazz or rock and roll, comic books have been central in the nation's popular culture since Superman's 1938 debut in Action Comics #1. Selling in the millions each year for the past six decades, comic books have figured prominently in the childhoods of most Americans alive today. In Comic Book Nation, Bradford W. Wright offers an engaging, illuminating, and often provocative history of the comic book industry within the context of twentieth-century American society.
From Batman's Depression-era battles against corrupt local politicians and Captain America's one-man war against Nazi Germany to Iron Man's Cold War exploits in Vietnam and Spider-Man's confrontations with student protestors and drug use in the early 1970s, comic books have continually reflected the national mood, as Wright's imaginative reading of thousands of titles from the 1930s to the 1980s makes clear. In every genresuperhero, war, romance, crime, and horror comic booksWright finds that writers and illustrators used the medium to address a variety of serious issues, including racism, economic injustice, fascism, the threat of nuclear war, drug abuse, and teenage alienation. At the same time, xenophobic wartime series proved that comic books could be as reactionary as any medium.
Wright's lively study also focuses on the role comic books played in transforming children and adolescents into consumers; the industry's ingenious efforts to market their products to legions of young but savvy fans; the efforts of parents, politicians, religious organizations, civic groups, and child psychologists like Dr. Fredric Wertham (whose 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent, a salacious exposé of the medium's violence and sexual content, led to U.S. Senate hearings) to link juvenile delinquency to comic books and impose censorship on the industry; and the changing economics of comic book publishing over the course of the century. For the paperback edition, Wright has written a new postscript that details industry developments in the late 1990s and the response of comic artists to the tragedy of 9/11. Comic Book Nation is at once a serious study of popular culture and an entertaining look at an enduring American art form.
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Consumer Society in American History: A Readerby Lawrence B. GlickmanISBN 0801484863 (0-8014-8486-3)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Consumer Society in American History: A Reader'Book summary:Consumption has often been called America's true national pastime. From the earliest European explorers trading with Native Americans to today's Internet shoppers, consumerism has driven American society. Until recent years, however, consumerism has received little serious attention from historians and other scholars.
This welcome volume offers the most comprehensive and incisive exploration of American consumer history to date. The first book on this topic to span the four centuries from the colonial era to the present, and the first to propose theoretical frameworks, the volume brings consumer society to the center of American history. Indeed, its authors demonstrate the many ways their research enhances knowledge of a broad range of historical topics, such as politics, labor ideology, immigrant life, and race, gender, and class relations. By including types of consumer studies which are seldom linked, this volume offers both a basis for historical synthesis and a springboard for further inquiry.
With contributions by Raymond Williams, Jean Baudrillard, Juliet B. Schor, Kim Moody, Jean-Christophe Agnew, and many others, plus the most comprehensive bibliographical essay ever produced on the historiography of American consumption, Consumer Society in American History will take its place as the definitive sourcebook for this emerging field.
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Crested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business Familyby Matthews Masayuki HamabataISBN 0801499755 (0-8014-9975-5)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Critical and Cultural Theory Readerby Antony Easthope, Kate McGowanISBN 080203800X (0-8020-3800-X)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Cultural Imperialism: A Critical Introductionby John TomlinsonISBN 0801842506 (0-8018-4250-6)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literatureby Espen J. AarsethISBN 0801855799 (0-8018-5579-9)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The Domain of Imagesby James ElkinsISBN 0801487242 (0-8014-8724-2)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Empire and Communicationsby Harold A. Innis, Innis, Mary (Quayle)ISBN 0802061192 (0-8020-6119-2)
Softcover, University of Toronto Press
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Empire of Conspiracy: The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar Americaby Timothy MelleyISBN 0801486068 (0-8014-8606-8)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Erin's Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Centuryby Hasia R. DinerISBN 0801828724 (0-8018-2872-4)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Eroticism and the Body Politicby Lynn Avery HuntISBN 0801840279 (0-8018-4027-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eroticism and the Body Politic'Book summary:By the end of the nineteenth century, women had become an undeniable force both in the public discussion of social life and in politics itself. Yet in art and literature women's bodies continued to be represented-- and domesticated-- by men. They were still more often the object of the artist's or writer's gaze than they were the subject of their own representing processes. The erotic potential of women's bodies, however, was far from a marginal concern in the elaboration of modern forms of politics, art, literature, and psychology.
In "Eroticism and the Body Politic", scholars from art history, history, and literature examine the frequent intersections between the body erotic and the body politic. Focusing on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France, they show how eroticized representations of bodies had a multitude of political and cultural meanings. The authors consider the eroticized body in a wide variety of media: from Fragonard's paintings of "erotic mothers", to political pornography attacking Marie Antoinette, to the "new woman" of fin-de-siecle decorative arts.
Exploring the possibilities of a multidisiplinary approach, the volume shows that eroticism had an impact far beyond the usual confines of libertine or pornographic literature-- and that politics included much more than voting, meeting, or demonstrating. At a time of general methodological ferment in the "human sciences", "Eroticism and the Body Politic" brings fresh approaches to the developing field of cultural studies. [via]
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Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Centuryby Mark DeryISBN 080213520X (0-8021-3520-X)
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Escapismby Yi-Fu TuanISBN 0801865409 (0-8018-6540-9)
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Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Centuryby Laura BrownISBN 0801488443 (0-8014-8844-3)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century Americaby Beth L. BaileyISBN 0801839351 (0-8018-3935-1)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islamby Talal AsadISBN 0801846323 (0-8018-4632-3)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Girls, Boys, Books, Toys: Gender in Children's Literature and Cultureby Margaret R. Higonnet, Beverly Lyon ClarkISBN 0801865263 (0-8018-6526-3)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Had A Good Time: Stories From American Postcardsby Robert Olen ButlerISBN 0802142044 (0-8021-4204-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams: A History of America's Romance With Illegal Drugsby Jill JonnesISBN 0801861659 (0-8018-6165-9)
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The Hite Report on the Family: Growing Up Under Patriarchyby Shere HiteISBN 0802134513 (0-8021-3451-3)
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Holidays in Hellby P. J. O'RourkeISBN 0802137016 (0-8021-3701-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Holidays in Hell'Book summary:No doubt about it: P. J. O'Rourke has a bizarre sense of fun. "What I've ... been," he writes in his introduction to Holidays in Hell "is a Trouble Tourist--going to see insurrections, stupidities, political crises, civil disturbances and other human folly because ... because it's fun." Forget Hawaii or the Poconos--O'Rourke gets his jollies in places like war-torn Lebanon where he is greeted at the border by a gun barrel in his face, or Seoul, just in time for election-day violence. Wherever he goes, however, O'Rourke takes his quirky sense of humor, laser eye for detail, and artful way with words: a Philippine army officer is "powerful-looking in a short, compressed way, like an attack hamster," and the Syrian army is described as having "dozens of silly hats, mostly berets in yellow, orange and shocking pink, but also tiny pillbox chapeaux.... The paratroopers wear shiny gold jumpsuits and crack commando units have skin-tight fatigues in a camouflage pattern of violet, peach, flesh tone and vermilion on a background of vivid purple. This must give excellent protective coloration in, say, a room full of Palm Beach divorcees in Lily Pulitzer dresses."
O'Rourke's flip, sarcastic style isn't for everyone, of course; the concept that anyone could find sightseeing in the Beirut or El Salvador of the 1980s fun might prove offensive to more than a few readers right off the bat. But love him or hate him, P. J. O'Rourke knows how to tell a good story, and if you like your travel writing laced with more than a little cynicism, Holidays in Hell could be just the book you've been looking for. [via]
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Homosexualities and French Literature: Cultural Contexts/Critical Textsby George Stambolian, Elaine MarksISBN 0801497663 (0-8014-9766-3)
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The Hungry Gene: The Inside Story of the Obesity Industryby Ellen Ruppel ShellISBN 0802140335 (0-8021-4033-5)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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I Have Been Waiting: Race and U.S. Higher Educationby Jennifer S. SimpsonISBN 0802085695 (0-8020-8569-5)
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The Idea of a Colony: Cross-Culturalism in Modern Poetryby Edward MarxISBN 080208799X (0-8020-8799-X)
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Imagining London: Postcolonial Fiction And the Transnational Metropolisby John Clement BallISBN 0802094554 (0-8020-9455-4)
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Imperial Projections: Ancient Rome in Modern Popular Cultureby Sandra R. Joshel, Donald T. McGuire, Margaret MalamudISBN 0801867428 (0-8018-6742-8)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Language, Counter Memory, Practiceby Michel Foucault, Donald F. BouchardISBN 0801492041 (0-8014-9204-1)
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The Last Frontier: Imagining Other Worlds, from the Copernican Revolution to Modern Science Fictionby Karl S. Guthke, Helen AtkinsISBN 0801497272 (0-8014-9727-2)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Literature and Societyby Edward W. SaidISBN 0801833469 (0-8018-3346-9)
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Looking Good: College Women And Body Image, 1875-1930by Margaret A. LoweISBN 0801882745 (0-8018-8274-5)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Los Angeles &The Future Of Urban Cultures: A Special Issue Of American Quarterlyby George J. Sanchez, Raul Homero VillaISBN 0801882087 (0-8018-8208-7)
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The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918by Ruth RosenISBN 0801826659 (0-8018-2665-9)
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Mediaeval Societyby Sidney PainterISBN 0801498503 (0-8014-9850-3)
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Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern Worldby Jeffrey Burton RussellISBN 0801497183 (0-8014-9718-3)
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Modern Furniture in Canada 1920 to 1970by Virginia WrightISBN 080202873X (0-8020-2873-X)
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Monsieur D'Eon Is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masqueradeby Gary KatesISBN 0801867312 (0-8018-6731-2)
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My Traitor's Heartby Rian MalanISBN 0802136842 (0-8021-3684-2)
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Nations and Nationalismby Ernest GellnerISBN 0801492637 (0-8014-9263-7)
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A Natural History of Homosexualityby Francis Mark MondimoreISBN 0801854407 (0-8018-5440-7)
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New Worlds, New Animals: From Menagerie to Zoological Park in the Nineteenth Centuryby R. J. Hoage, William A. DeissISBN 0801853737 (0-8018-5373-7)
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New York Intellect : A History of Intellectual Life in New York City from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Timeby Thomas BenderISBN 0801836395 (0-8018-3639-5)
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On Signsby Marshall BlonskyISBN 0801830079 (0-8018-3007-9)
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Political Shakespeare: New Essays in Cultural Materialismby Jonathan Dollimore, Alan SinfieldISBN 0801493250 (0-8014-9325-0)
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Political Writings: A Vindication of the Rights of Men A Vindication of the Rights of Woman An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolutioby Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet ToddISBN 0802074456 (0-8020-7445-6)
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Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narrativesby Eleanor Ty, Ty EleanorISBN 0802086047 (0-8020-8604-7)
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The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brinkby Mark DeryISBN 0802136702 (0-8021-3670-2)
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The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink of the Millenniumby Mark DeryISBN 080211640X (0-8021-1640-X)
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The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmandby Jim HarrisonISBN 080213937X (0-8021-3937-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand'Book summary:Jim Harrison's The Raw and the Cooked extols our profound (and precarious) relationship to what we eat, and to the natural world. Compiled from the author's much-loved Esquire, Smart, and Men's Journal columns, the book offers charging personal panoramas in the guise of food essays. In pieces with titles like "Conscious Dining," "Hunger, Real and Unreal," and "Repulsion and Grace," Harrison--a kind of dharma bum cum foodie--takes his readers into realms of taste and feeling, spirit and body. "We are often like autistic children," he writes, "unable to connect experiences, especially if we want something interesting to eat." A Michigan "outlander," he nonetheless travels wide and can tell of the "tummy thrills" engendered by trips to restaurants like Manhattan's Babbo, meals planned and meals remembered. But the journeys he likes best involve hunting or foraging, his personal salves: "I arrived home in a palsied state," he writes. "To set the brakes, I wandered for hours in the woods looking for morels. At one point I wandered three hours to find four morels. I did however gather enough to cook our annual spring rite, a simple sauté of the mushrooms, wild leeks and sweetbreads."
A warning: Harrison can lick his spiritual wounds publicly for long stretches, and not all readers will find his swaggering muscularity to their taste. Those who follow him are, however, rewarded by contact with his passion and sly, world-colliding depictions: "The dinner was a mystical experience," he writes, "and as such you must live through it to fully understand the mysticality ... less apparent when I got up next morning in a driving rainstorm with the usual flooded freeways." --Arthur Boehm [via]
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The Republic of Mass Culture: Journalism, Filmmaking, and Broadcasting in America Since 1941by James L. BaughmanISBN 0801883164 (0-8018-8316-4)
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Two new chapters examine media entrants like Fox News, technologies such as the Internet, and increasing industry concentration. Baughman discusses significant changes in media economics and audience demand that are having profound effects on radio program formats, television news coverage, and the very existence of newspapers.
Carefully drawing on interdisciplinary communication research, The Republic of Mass Culture presents a lively analysis of the shifting objectives and challenges of the media industries.
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The Riddle of Amish Cultureby Donald B. KraybillISBN 080186772X (0-8018-6772-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Riddle of Amish Culture'Book summary:" Why will the Amish ride in cars but refuse to drive them? " How can their old-fashioned farms turn a profit while many modern farms go broke? " Do they ever change their customs? Who decides, and how? " If they'll use pay phones, why not have a phone in the house? " Why will they use electronic calculators but not computers?
The Amish are one of America's most intriguing and puzzling communities. To the outsider, their habits and customs abound with contradictions. But the most intriguing puzzle of all is the secret of their survival in the twentieth century. How have these "plain folk" not only kept the modern world at bay but actually grown from a meager band of 5,000 in 1900 to over 100,000 today?
Donald Kraybill has lived and worked among the Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, home of America's oldest Amish community. Talking with the Amish on their farms, in their shops, and around their kitchen tables, he has learned how they have "struck a bargain" with modern times--a bargain that explains why many of the rules that seem quaint or silly actually have been essential to keeping Amish culture alive.
In The Riddle of Amish Culture Kraybill finds the Amish men and women eager to answer our questions. But they also have questions for us. Why, they ask, do we shut our aging parents out of our houses--and put them in institutions we call "homes?" Why do we move away from the towns and families we love in pursuit of jobs we hate? And why do we need weapons so powerful they could one day destroy us all--Amish and "English" alike?
The Riddle of Amish Culture draws us into conversation across a cultural fence with a people as remote as the seventeenth century and as close to home as that blacktop road off the next Interstate exit. And what we learn about our Amish neighbors tells us much about ourselves.
"Some have wall-to-wall carpeting, insulated wooly stuff all around the top, a big dashboard, glove compartment, speedometer, clock, stereo radio, buttons galore, and lights and reflectors all over the place... If they have the money, that's what they do, and that's pride."--an Amish leader, on the "hot- rod" carriages of some Amish teenagers
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The Roman Gaze: Vision, Power, and the Bodyby David FredrickISBN 0801869617 (0-8018-6961-7)
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Contributors: Carlin Barton, Cindy Benton, John R. Clarke, Anthony Corbeill, Katherine Owen Eldred, David Fredrick, Pamela Gordon, Zahra Newby, and Alison R. Sharrock.
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Savagism and Civilization: A Study of the Indian and the American Mindby Roy Harvey PearceISBN 080186996X (0-8018-6996-X)
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Shakespeare's Scepticismby Graham BradshawISBN 0801499100 (0-8014-9910-0)
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Tattooed: The Sociogenesis of a Body Artby Michael AtkinsonISBN 0802085687 (0-8020-8568-7)
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The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfactionby Rachel P. MainesISBN 0801866464 (0-8018-6646-4)
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Things You Get for Freeby Michael McGirrISBN 0802140009 (0-8021-4000-9)
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This Sex Which Is Not Oneby Luce Irigaray, Carolyn Burke, Catherine PorterISBN 0801493315 (0-8014-9331-5)
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Among the topics she treats are the implications of the thought of Freud and Lacan for understanding womanhood and articulating a feminine discourse; classic views on the significance of the difference between male and female sex organs; and the experience of erotic pleasure in men and in women. She also takes up explicitly the question of economic exploitation of women; in an astute reading of Marx she shows that the subjection of woman has been institutionalized by her reduction to an object of economic exchange. Throughout Irigaray seeks to dispute and displace male-centered structures of language and thought through a challenging writing practice that takes a first step toward a woman's discourse, a discourse that would put an end to Western culture's enduring phallocentrism.
Making more direct and accessible the subversive challenge of Speculum of the Other Woman, this volume-skillfully translated by Catherine Porter (with Carolyn Burke)-will be essential reading for anyone seriously concerned with contemporary feminist issues.
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Tocqueville: A Biographyby Andre JardinISBN 0801860679 (0-8018-6067-9)
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Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth Century Americaby Thomas BenderISBN 0801829259 (0-8018-2925-9)
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Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guideby Mieke BalISBN 0802084109 (0-8020-8410-9)
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Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sanseiby David MuraISBN 0802142397 (0-8021-4239-7)
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What's Wrong With Postmodernism: Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophyby Christopher NorrisISBN 0801841372 (0-8018-4137-2)
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