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Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century Americaby Richard RortyISBN 0674003128 (0-674-00312-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America'Book summary:There are many shameful incidents in America's past: the institution of slavery, genocidal assaults on the indigenous peoples of this continent, the escalation of the Vietnam War, and so on. What should our response to such acts be? Should we regard the nation as irredeemably tainted by sin and spend our time cataloging its evils, or should we acknowledge its shortcomings and make a conscious effort to turn it into a better nation?
Philosopher Richard Rorty believes that there is hope for America, but that today's Left is not meeting the challenge. He contrasts the cultural, academic Left's focus on our heritage of shame (which, he admits, has to the extent that it makes hatred intolerable had the positive effect of making America a more civil society) with the politically engaged reformist Left of the early part of this century. "The distinction between the old strategy and the new is important," he writes. "The choice between them makes the difference between what Todd Gitlin calls common dreams and what Arthur Schlesinger calls disuniting Americans. To take pride in being black or gay is an entirely reasonable response to the sadistic humiliation to which one has been subjected. But insofar as this pride prevents someone from also taking pride in being an American citizen, from thinking of his or her country as capable of reform, or from being able to join with straights or whites in reformist initiatives, it is a political disaster."
Not everyone, to be sure, is going to agree with Rorty's ideas. But his approach to civic life, which is pragmatic in the tradition of John Dewey and visionary in the tradition of Walt Whitman, is bound to provoke increased discussion of what it is to be a citizen, and his call for a renewed awareness of the history of American reformist activism can only be applauded. [via]
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The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens: With a New Introductionby Gerald HoltonISBN 0674005309 (0-674-00530-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clintonby Richard A. PosnerISBN 0674003918 (0-674-00391-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton'Book summary:Richard Posner is a top-ranking member of the United States judiciary and one of the most highly respected legal theorists and philosophers. In An Affair of State, he turns his attention to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, which stemmed from charges of perjury and obstruction of justice regarding statements about his adulterous relationship with former White House staffer Monica Lewinsky. While Posner focuses on the actual legal issues involved rather than attempt to make a case for Clinton's or any of his Republican adversaries' being evil incarnate, he does not treat the president with kid gloves. Not only does Posner claim that Clinton is a brazen liar who "flaunts his religiosity, but gives religion a bad name," he makes a strong case that the charges of perjury against the president were valid, "that [he] in several instances obstructed justice in a legal sense, and that he has never admitted lying about his relationship with Lewinsky." Along the way, Posner considers several fascinating topics, including whether the president can pardon himself--theoretically, except in cases of impeachment, he can--and even, on occasion, displays a subtle dry wit. (Among the best one-liners: "[Alan] Dershowitz criticizes Clinton, but largely for the blunders he committed in trying to conceal his affair ... and implicitly for not having retained Dershowitz as legal advisor.") An Affair of State is the smartest, most level-headed book written to date about what Posner calls "the whole Clinton-Lewinsky-Starr-impeachment business"; it is likely to retain that status for some time to come. --Ron Hogan [via]
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After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologistby Clifford GeertzISBN 0674008723 (0-674-00872-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policiesby John W. KingdonISBN 0673523896 (0-673-52389-6)
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Alice James: A Biographyby Jean StrouseISBN 067401555X (0-674-01555-X)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice James: A Biography'Book summary:Alice James was the sister of William and Henry, the only daughter in a family of brilliant and not a little eccentric men, and representative of the intellectually repressed nineteenth-century woman whose grief finds an outlet in neurotic illness. She kept a withering journal of her life, wrote letters, and left behind a trail needing only modern signposts. She was an integral part of a family firm of scholars and writers. But she could never seize the opportunities that a few other women of her age did. There was no air to breathe in the intoxicating atmosphere where Henry was already writing spellbinding novels and William was professing at Harvard and reinventing psychology and philosophy. Her life, then, is a singular portrait embedded in a family history that dazzled her age and still interests ours.
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American Government: Readings And Casesby Peter WollISBN 067352177X (0-673-52177-X)
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The Arcades Projectby Walter Benjamin, Kevin McLaughlin, Howard EilandISBN 0674008022 (0-674-00802-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arcades Project'Book summary:You could spend years trying to read Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project--after all, he spent much of the last 13 years of his life doing the research. When he committed suicide in 1940, he destroyed his copy of the manuscript, and so for decades the work was believed lost. But another copy turned up, and Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin have translated it into English. It is a complex, fragmentary work--more a series of notes for a book than a book itself--which probes the culture of the Paris arcades (a cross between covered streets and shopping malls) of the mid-19th century and the flaneur ("the man who walks long and aimlessly through the streets" in an "anamnestic intoxication [that] ... feeds on the sensory data taking shape before his eyes but often possesses itself of abstract knowledge--indeed, of dead facts--as something experienced and lived through"). The Arcades Project is, frankly, so dense a work that one hardly has enough time to glimpse fleetingly at its sections--over 100 pages of notes on Baudelaire alone!--before mentioning it to you, though one certainly looks forward to the opportunity to peruse it at leisure. [via]
Archaeology: A Brief Introductionby Brian M. FaganISBN 0673523365 (0-673-52336-5)
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Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyrightby Mark RoseISBN 0674053095 (0-674-05309-5)
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Before Big Science: The Pursuit of Modern Chemistry and Physics 1800-1940by Mary Jo NyeISBN 0674063821 (0-674-06382-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Before Big Science: The Pursuit of Modern Chemistry and Physics 1800-1940'Book summary:Today's vast multinational scientific monoliths bear little resemblance to the modest laboratories of the early nineteenth century. Yet early in the nineteenth century--when heat and electricity were still counted among the elements--changes were already under way that would revolutionize chemistry and physics into the "big science" of the late twentieth century, expanding tiny, makeshift laboratories into bustling research institutes and replacing the scientific amateurs and generalist savants of the early Victorian era with the professional specialists of contemporary physical science.
Mary Jo Nye traces the social and intellectual history of the physical sciences from the early 1800s to the beginning of the Second World War, examining the sweeping transformation of scientific institutions and professions during the period and the groundbreaking experiments that fueled that change, from the earliest investigations of molecular chemistry and field dynamics to the revolutionary breakthroughs of quantum mechanics, relativity theory, and nuclear science.
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The Bible As It Wasby James L. KugelISBN 0674069412 (0-674-06941-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bible As It Was'Book summary:James Kugel's The Bible As It Was is an eye-opening study of early scriptural interpretation. Kugel focuses on readings of the Torah (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible) from 100-300 A.D., particularly the Jewish tradition of midrash--a practice of filling in the narrative gaps where biblical stories are ambiguous or unclear. Kugel's interest in midrash is more than academic, however. He wants readers to consider the ways these early readings of the Bible affect today's popular understandings of scriptural texts (such as the sacrifice of Isaac or the creation in Genesis); and he provides a convincing description of the richness and complexity that informs what seem to many like simple, commonsense readings of scripture. [via]
Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemalaby Stephen Kinzer, Stephen SchlesingerISBN 067401930X (0-674-01930-X)
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The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousnessby Paul GilroyISBN 0674076060 (0-674-07606-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness'Book summary:Afrocentrism. Eurocentrism. Caribbean Studies. British Studies. To the forces of cultural nationalism hunkered down in their camps, this bold hook sounds a liberating call. There is,Paul Gilroy tells us, a culture that is not specifically African, American, Caribbean, or British, but all of these at once, a black Atlantic culture whose themes and techniques transcend ethnicity and nationality to produce something new and, until now, unremarked. Challenging the practices and assumptions of cultural studies, The Black Atlantic also complicates and enriches our understanding of modernism.
Debates about postmodernism have cast an unfashionable pall over questions of historical periodization. Gilroy bucks this trend by arguing that the development of black culture in the Americas arid Europe is a historical experience which can be called modern for a number of clear and specific reasons. For Hegel, the dialectic of master and slave was integral to modernity, and Gilroy considers the implications of this idea for a transatlantic culture. In search of a poetics reflecting the politics and history of this culture, he takes us on a transatlantic tour of the music that, for centuries, has transmitted racial messages and feeling around the world, from the Jubilee Singers in the nineteenth century to Jimi Hendrix to rap. He also explores this internationalism as it is manifested in black writing from the "double consciousness" of W. E. B. Du Bois to the "double vision" of Richard Wright to the compelling voice of Toni Morrison.
In a final tour de force, Gilroy exposes the shared contours of black and Jewish concepts of diaspora in order both to establish a theoretical basis for healing rifts between blacks and Jews in contemporary culture and to further define the central theme of his book: that blacks have shaped a nationalism, if not a nation, within the shared culture of the black Atlantic.
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The Bomb: A Lifeby Gerard J. De GrootISBN 0674022351 (0-674-02235-1)
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The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolutionby Elisabeth A. LloydISBN 0674022467 (0-674-02246-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution'Book summary:Why women evolved to have orgasms--when most of their primate relatives don't--is a persistent mystery among evolutionary biologists. In pursuing this mystery, Elisabeth Lloyd arrives at another: How could anything as inadequate as the evolutionary explanations of the female orgasm have passed muster as science? A judicious and revealing look at all twenty evolutionary accounts of the trait of human female orgasm, Lloyd's book is at the same time a case study of how certain biases steer science astray.
Over the past fifteen years, the effect of sexist or male-centered approaches to science has been hotly debated. Drawing especially on data from nonhuman primates and human sexology over eighty years, Lloyd shows what damage such bias does in the study of female orgasm. She also exposes a second pernicious form of bias that permeates the literature on female orgasms: a bias toward adaptationism. Here Lloyd's critique comes alive, demonstrating how most of the evolutionary accounts either are in conflict with, or lack, certain types of evidence necessary to make their cases--how they simply assume that female orgasm must exist because it helped females in the past reproduce. As she weighs the evidence, Lloyd takes on nearly everyone who has written on the subject: evolutionists, animal behaviorists, and feminists alike. Her clearly and cogently written book is at once a convincing case study of bias in science and a sweeping summary and analysis of what is known about the evolution of the intriguing trait of female orgasm.
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The Case Of The Female Orgasm: Bias In The Science Of Evolutionby Elisabeth Anne LloydISBN 0674017064 (0-674-01706-4)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Civilization in the Westby Patricia O'Brien, Patrick Geary, Mark KishlanskyISBN 0673992268 (0-673-99226-8)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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Civilization in the Westby Mark A. KishlanskyISBN 067398527X (0-673-98527-X)
Softcover, Longman Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Civilization in the West'Book summary:The Primary Source Edition of Civilization in the West blends social and political history into a fascinating narrative that brings history to life. With 20 primary source documents, this edition offers an examination of all aspects of world history plus a wealth of original documents that help make the material come alive. Document Analysis questions encourage readers to delve deeper into the documents and to explore how they relate to the events of the time.
The extensive primary source document section, complete with accompanying with questions, urges readers to think analytically about the past.
Overview of the history of Western Civilization.
Readers interested in learning about the history and development of Western Civilization.
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Civilization in the West: To 1715by Patricia O'Brien, Mark Kishlansky, Patrick GearyISBN 0673992489 (0-673-99248-9)
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The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Designby Ronald L. NumbersISBN 0674023390 (0-674-02339-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design'Book summary:In light of the embattled status of evolutionary theory, particularly as "intelligent design" makes headway against Darwinism in the schools and in the courts, this now classic account of the roots of creationism assumes new relevance. Expanded and updated to account for the appeal of intelligent design and the global spread of creationism, The Creationists offers a thorough, clear, and balanced overview of the arguments and figures at the heart of the debate.
Praised by both creationists and evolutionists for its comprehensiveness, the book meticulously traces the dramatic shift among Christian fundamentalists from acceptance of the earth's antiquity to the insistence of present-day scientific creationists that most fossils date back to Noah's flood and its aftermath. Focusing especially on the rise of this "flood geology," Ronald L. Numbers chronicles the remarkable resurgence of antievolutionism since the 1960s, as well as the creationist movement's tangled religious roots in the theologies of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Baptists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, and Adventists, among others. His book offers valuable insight into the origins of various "creation science" think tanks and the people behind them. It also goes a long way toward explaining how creationism, until recently viewed as a "peculiarly American" phenomenon, has quietly but dynamically spread internationally--and found its expression outside Christianity in Judaism and Islam.
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Decker's Patterns of Expositionby Robert A. Schwegler, Randall E. DeckerISBN 0673523381 (0-673-52338-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Decker's Patterns of Exposition'Book summary:Decker's Patterns of Exposition is a modern classic -- an accessible collection of quality essays which aptly illustrate the rhetorical modes and reflect the diversity of our culture, and the changes and challenges of our times. Practical, concise writing apparatus includes chapter openers that introduce each rhetorical mode. An emphasis on critical reading and writing is demonstrated through the "Ways of Writing" section and an all new section, "Becoming a Critical Reader." Within chapters, some essays have been grouped into thematic clusters on provocative topics to show how writers use multiple patterns to address the same theme. [via]
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Empireby Antonio Negri, Michael HardtISBN 0674006712 (0-674-00671-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Empire'Book summary:Imperialism as we knew it may be no more, but Empire is alive and well. It is, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri demonstrate in this bold work, the new political order of globalization. It is easy to recognize the contemporary economic, cultural, and legal transformations taking place across the globe but difficult to understand them. Hardt and Negri contend that they should be seen in line with our historical understanding of Empire as a universal order that accepts no boundaries or limits. Their book shows how this emerging Empire is fundamentally different from the imperialism of European dominance and capitalist expansion in previous eras. Rather, todays Empire draws on elements of U.S. constitutionalism, with its tradition of hybrid identities and expanding frontiers.
Empire identifies a radical shift in concepts that form the philosophical basis of modern politics, concepts such as sovereignty, nation, and people. Hardt and Negri link this philosophical transformation to cultural and economic changes in postmodern societyto new forms of racism, new conceptions of identity and difference, new networks of communication and control, and new paths of migration. They also show how the power of transnational corporations and the increasing predominance of postindustrial forms of labor and production help to define the new imperial global order.
More than analysis, Empire is also an unabashedly utopian work of political philosophy, a new Communist Manifesto. Looking beyond the regimes of exploitation and control that characterize todays world order, it seeks an alternative political paradigmthe basis for a truly democratic global society.
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Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversariesby Steven WeinbergISBN 0674011201 (0-674-01120-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries'Book summary:Steven Weinberg isn't ashamed of science. Of course, as a Nobel winner in physics, he does have emotional capital invested in the enterprise, but most of his arguments are sound and compelling. Facing Up is a collection of his essays, written over 15 years, celebrating and defending mainstream science. Rising up against the cultural critics who insist that science is essentially politics or even imperialism dressed up in a white coat, he is patient and eloquent as he explains how their misreadings of scientific literature and their own preconceptions guide their reasoning. From mildly wonkish to endearingly passionate, his writing engages the reader's full attention regardless of cultural affiliation. Science lovers will adore Weinberg's unabashed boosterism, while skeptics can try to rise to his challenge. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracyby Bruce AckermanISBN 0674023951 (0-674-02395-1)
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God's War: A New History of the Crusadesby Christopher TyermanISBN 0674023870 (0-674-02387-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God's War: A New History of the Crusades'Book summary:God's War offers a sweeping new vision of one of history's most astounding events: the Crusades.
From 1096 to 1500, European Christians fought to recreate the Middle East, Muslim Spain, and the pagan Baltic in the image of their God. The Crusades are perhaps both the most familiar and most misunderstood phenomena of the medieval world, and here Christopher Tyerman seeks to recreate, from the ground up, the centuries of violence committed as an act of religious devotion.
The result is a stunning reinterpretation of the Crusades, revealed as both bloody political acts and a manifestation of a growing Christian communal identity. Tyerman uncovers a system of belief bound by aggression, paranoia, and wishful thinking, and a culture founded on war as an expression of worship, social discipline, and Christian charity.
This astonishing historical narrative is imbued with figures that have become legends--Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, Philip Augustus. But Tyerman also delves beyond these leaders to examine the thousands and thousands of Christian men--from Knights Templars to mercenaries to peasants--who, in the name of their Savior, abandoned their homes to conquer distant and alien lands, as well as the countless people who defended their soil and eventually turned these invaders back. With bold analysis, Tyerman explicates the contradictory mix of genuine piety, military ferocity, and plain greed that motivated generations of Crusaders. He also offers unique insight into the maturation of a militant Christianity that defined Europe's identity and that has forever influenced the cyclical antagonisms between the Christian and Muslim worlds.
Drawing on all of the most recent scholarship, and told with great verve and authority, God's War is the definitive account of a fascinating and horrifying story that continues to haunt our contemporary world.
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The Great Arizona Orphan Abductionby Linda GordonISBN 067400535X (0-674-00535-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction'Book summary:In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children and nearly lynched the nuns and the local priest. The Catholic Church sued to get its wards back, but all the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled in favor of the vigilantes.
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction tells this disturbing and dramatic tale to illuminate the creation of racial boundaries along the Mexican border. Clifton/Morenci, Arizona, was a "wild West" boomtown, where the mines and smelters pulled in thousands of Mexican immigrant workers. Racial walls hardened as the mines became big business and whiteness became a marker of superiority. These already volatile race and class relations produced passions that erupted in the "orphan incident." To the Anglos of Clifton/Morenci, placing a white child with a Mexican family was tantamount to child abuse, and they saw their kidnapping as a rescue.
Women initiated both sides of this confrontation. Mexican women agreed to take in these orphans, both serving their church and asserting a maternal prerogative; Anglo women believed they had to "save" the orphans, and they organized a vigilante squad to do it. In retelling this nearly forgotten piece of American history, Linda Gordon brilliantly recreates and dissects the tangled intersection of family and racial values, in a gripping story that resonates with today's conflicts over the "best interests of the child."
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A History of the Arab Peoplesby Albert HouraniISBN 0674010175 (0-674-01017-5)
Hardcover, Belknap Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the Arab Peoples'Book summary:Upon its publication in 1991, Albert Hourani's masterwork was hailed as the definitive story of Arab civilization, and became both a bestseller and an instant classic. In a panoramic view encompassing twelve centuries of Arab history and culture, Hourani brilliantly illuminated the people and events that have fundamentally shaped the Arab world.
Now this seminal book is available in an expanded second edition. Noted Islamic scholar Malise Ruthven brings the story up to date from the mid-1980s, including such events as the Gulf War; civil unrest in Algeria; the change of leadership in Syria, Morocco, and Jordan; and the aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001.
The terrorist attacks in the United States, ongoing crisis in Iraq, and renewed violence between Israelis and Palestinians all underscore the need for a balanced and well-informed understanding of the Arab world, and make this insightful history of the Arab peoples more important than ever.
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Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhoodby Steven MintzISBN 0674019989 (0-674-01998-9)
Softcover, Belknap Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood'Book summary:Like Huck's raft, the experience of American childhood has been both adventurous and terrifying. For more than three centuries, adults have agonized over raising children while children have followed their own paths to development and expression. Now, Steven Mintz gives us the first comprehensive history of American childhood encompassing both the child's and the adult's tumultuous early years of life.
Underscoring diversity through time and across regions, Mintz traces the transformation of children from the sinful creatures perceived by Puritans to the productive workers of nineteenth-century farms and factories, from the cosseted cherubs of the Victorian era to the confident consumers of our own. He explores their role in revolutionary upheaval, westward expansion, industrial growth, wartime mobilization, and the modern welfare state. Revealing the harsh realities of children's lives through history--the rigors of physical labor, the fear of chronic ailments, the heartbreak of premature death--he also acknowledges the freedom children once possessed to discover their world as well as themselves.
Whether at work or play, at home or school, the transition from childhood to adulthood has required generations of Americans to tackle tremendously difficult challenges. Today, adults impose ever-increasing demands on the young for self-discipline, cognitive development, and academic achievement, even as the influence of the mass media and consumer culture has grown. With a nod to the past, Mintz revisits an alternative to the goal-driven realities of contemporary childhood. An odyssey of psychological self-discovery and growth, this book suggests a vision of childhood that embraces risk and freedom--like the daring adventure on Huck's raft.
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The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre, & Other Aspects of Popular Cultureby Robert WarshowISBN 0674007263 (0-674-00726-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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In the Beginning: An Introduction to Archaeologyby Brian M. FaganISBN 0673525244 (0-673-52524-4)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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Inside Deaf Cultureby Carol A. Padden, Tom L. HumphriesISBN 0674015061 (0-674-01506-1)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inside Deaf Culture'Book summary:In this absorbing story of the changing life of a community, the authors of Deaf in America reveal historical events and forces that have shaped the ways that Deaf people define themselves today. Inside Deaf Culture relates Deaf people's search for a voice of their own, and their proud self-discovery and self-description as a flourishing culture.
Padden and Humphries show how the nineteenth-century schools for the deaf, with their denigration of sign language and their insistence on oralist teaching, shaped the lives of Deaf people for generations to come. They describe how Deaf culture and art thrived in mid-twentieth century Deaf clubs and Deaf theatre, and profile controversial contemporary technologies.
Most triumphant is the story of the survival of the rich and complex language American Sign Language, long misunderstood but finally recently recognized by a hearing world that could not conceive of language in a form other than speech. In a moving conclusion, the authors describe their own very different pathways into the Deaf community, and reveal the confidence and anxiety of the people of this tenuous community as it faces the future.
Inside Deaf Culture celebrates the experience of a minority culture--its common past, present debates, and promise for the future. From these pages emerge clear and bold voices, speaking out from inside this once silenced community.
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Into the Heart : One Man's Pursuit of Love and Knowledge among the Yanomamiby Kenneth Good, David ChanoffISBN 0673982327 (0-673-98232-7)
Softcover, Prentice Hall PTR
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Japan Encyclopediaby Louis Fr d ric, Kathe RothISBN 0674017536 (0-674-01753-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Japan Encyclopediaby Louis Frederic, Kathe Roth, Louis-FredericISBN 0674007700 (0-674-00770-0)
Hardcover, Belknap Pr
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Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americansby Anthony F. C. WallaceISBN 0674005481 (0-674-00548-1)
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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing Interactive Editionby Dana Gioia, X. J. KennedyISBN 0673522814 (0-673-52281-4)
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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing Interactive Editionby X. J. KennedyISBN 0673521591 (0-673-52159-1)
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Literature for Composition: Essays, Fiction, Poetry, and Dramaby Sylvan BarnetISBN 0673523446 (0-673-52344-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Literature for Composition: Essays, Fiction, Poetry, and Drama'Book summary:One of the first anthologies designed specifically for writing courses, Literature for Composition continues to offer superior coverage of reading, writing, and arguing about literature and a deep anthology of readings presented in Sylvan Barnets signature accessible style. Literature for Composition opens with several chapters that provide uniquely helpful strategies and models for reading, thinking, and writing critically about literature. The first text to link argument and literature, the eighth edition provides earlier discussions of arguing about literature as part of the writing process. A diverse anthology of selections is organized around seven engaging themes, and nine compelling case studies help launch research projects. The text's 200 images, a 4-color insert, and special chapters on visual literacy and literature on film add another appealing dimension to the study of literature. [via]
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Made to Break: Technology And Obsolescence in Americaby Giles SladeISBN 0674022033 (0-674-02203-3)
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Host: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & CraneIf you've replaced a computer lately--or a cell phone, a camera, a television--chances are, the old one still worked. And chances are even greater that the latest model won't last as long as the one it replaced. Welcome to the world of planned obsolescence--a business model, a way of life, and a uniquely American invention that this eye-opening book explores from its beginnings to its perilous implications for the very near future.
Made to Break is a history of twentieth-century technology as seen through the prism of obsolescence. America invented everything that is now disposable, Giles Slade tells us, and he explains how disposability was in fact a necessary condition for America's rejection of tradition and our acceptance of change and impermanence. His book shows us the ideas behind obsolescence at work in such American milestones as the inventions of branding, packaging, and advertising; the contest for market dominance between GM and Ford; the struggle for a national communications network, the development of electronic technologies--and with it the avalanche of electronic consumer waste that will overwhelm America's landfills and poison its water within the coming decade.
History reserves a privileged place for those societies that built things to last--forever, if possible. What place will it hold for a society addicted to consumption--a whole culture made to break? This book gives us a detailed and harrowing picture of how, by choosing to support ever-shorter product lives we may well be shortening the future of our way of life as well.
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Man and Wife in America: A Historyby Hendrik HartogISBN 0674008111 (0-674-00811-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man and Wife in America: A History'Book summary:In nineteenth-century America, the law insisted that marriage was a permanent relationship defined by the husband's authority and the wife's dependence. Yet at the same time the law created the means to escape that relationship. How was this possible? And how did wives and husbands experience marriage within that legal regime? These are the complexities that Hendrik Hartog plumbs in a study of the powers of law and its limits.
Exploring a century and a half of marriage through stories of struggle and conflict mined from case records, Hartog shatters the myth of a golden age of stable marriage. He describes the myriad ways the law shaped and defined marital relations and spousal identities, and how individuals manipulated and reshaped the rules of the American states to fit their needs. We witness a compelling cast of characters: wives who attempted to leave abusive husbands, women who manipulated their marital status for personal advantage, accidental and intentional bigamists, men who killed their wives' lovers, couples who insisted on divorce in a legal culture that denied them that right.
As we watch and listen to these men and women, enmeshed in law and escaping from marriages, we catch reflected images both of ourselves and our parents, of our desires and our anxieties about marriage. Hartog shows how our own conflicts and confusions about marital roles and identities are rooted in the history of marriage and the legal struggles that defined and transformed it.
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The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohsby Jan AssmannISBN 0674012119 (0-674-01211-9)
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A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migrationby Steven HahnISBN 067401765X (0-674-01765-X)
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Paris: Capital of the Worldby Patrice Higonnet, Arthur GoldhammerISBN 0674017587 (0-674-01758-7)
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People of the Earth: An Introduction to World Prehistoryby Brian M. FaganISBN 0673521672 (0-673-52167-2)
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Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainmentby David BordwellISBN 0674002148 (0-674-00214-8)
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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memoryby David W. BlightISBN 0674008197 (0-674-00819-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory'Book summary:No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals its tragic costs to race relations and America's national reunion.
In 1865, confronted with a ravaged landscape and a torn America, the North and South began a slow and painful process of reconciliation. The ensuing decades witnessed the triumph of a culture of reunion, which downplayed sectional division and emphasized the heroics of a battle between noble men of the Blue and the Gray. Nearly lost in national culture were the moral crusades over slavery that ignited the war, the presence and participation of African Americans throughout the war, and the promise of emancipation that emerged from the war. Race and Reunion is a history of how the unity of white America was purchased through the increasing segregation of black and white memory of the Civil War. Blight delves deeply into the shifting meanings of death and sacrifice, Reconstruction, the romanticized South of literature, soldiers' reminiscences of battle, the idea of the Lost Cause, and the ritual of Memorial Day. He resurrects the variety of African-American voices and memories of the war and the efforts to preserve the emancipationist legacy in the midst of a culture built on its denial.
Blight's sweeping narrative of triumph and tragedy, romance and realism, is a compelling tale of the politics of memory, of how a nation healed from civil war without justice. By the early twentieth century, the problems of race and reunion were locked in mutual dependence, a painful legacy that continues to haunt us today. [via]
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Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Culturesby Chris McManusISBN 0674009533 (0-674-00953-3)
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Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Culturesby I. C. McManusISBN 0674016130 (0-674-01613-0)
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The Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writersby Maxine Hairston, John J. RuszkiewiczISBN 0673997286 (0-673-99728-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writers'Book summary:"What did you write today?" "What will you write tomorrow?" The Scott Foresman Handbook for Writers, Seventh Edition, is the only handbook proven to prepare you completely for writing in the classroom and beyond. Known for its accessible style and innovation, the new edition of The Scott Foresman Handbook continues the tradition with My Handbook. This groundbreaking service allows you to personalize the online edition of The Scott Foresman Handbook to meet your needs. In addition, it offers instant access to the entire Scott Foresman Handbook, diagnostic tests, interactive wercises, and more. Click on www.prenhall.com/hairston/, and use your access code packaged free with new copy purchase of The Scott Foresman Handbook, Seventh Edition. [via]
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The Secret Life of Puppetsby Victoria NelsonISBN 0674012445 (0-674-01244-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret Life of Puppets'Book summary:In one of those rare books that allows us to see the world not as we've never seen it before, but as we see it daily without knowing, Victoria Nelson illuminates the deep but hidden attraction the supernatural still holds for a secular mainstream culture that forced the transcendental underground and firmly displaced wonder and awe with the forces of reason, materialism, and science.
In a backward look at an era now drawing to a close, The Secret Life of Puppets describes a curious reversal in the roles of art and religion: where art and literature once took their content from religion, we came increasingly to seek religion, covertly, through art and entertainment. In a tour of Western culture that is at once exhilarating and alarming, Nelson shows us the distorted forms in which the spiritual resurfaced in high art but also, strikingly, in the mass culture of puppets, horror-fantasy literature, and cyborgs: from the works of Kleist, Poe, Musil, and Lovecraft to Philip K. Dick and virtual reality simulations. At the end of the millennium, discarding a convention of the demonized grotesque that endured three hundred years, a Demiurgic consciousness shaped in Late Antiquity is emerging anew to re-divinize the human as artists like Lars von Trier and Will Self reinvent Expressionism in forms familiar to our pre-Reformation ancestors. Here as never before, we see how pervasively but unwittingly, consuming art forms of the fantastic, we allow ourselves to believe.
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A Short Course in Photography: An Introduction to Black and White Photographic Techniqueby Jim Stone, Barbara LondonISBN 0673524396 (0-673-52439-6)
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The Singer of Talesby Albert Bates Lord, Stephen Mitchell, Gregory NagyISBN 0674002830 (0-674-00283-0)
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Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinasby Sally E. HaddenISBN 0674012348 (0-674-01234-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas'Book summary:Obscured from our view of slaves and masters in America is a critical third party: the state, with its coercive power. This book completes the grim picture of slavery by showing us the origins, the nature, and the extent of slave patrols in Virginia and the Carolinas from the late seventeenth century through the end of the Civil War. Here we see how the patrols, formed by county courts and state militias, were the closest enforcers of codes governing slaves throughout the South.
Mining a variety of sources, Sally Hadden presents the views of both patrollers and slaves as she depicts the patrols, composed of "respectable" members of society as well as poor whites, often mounted and armed with whips and guns, exerting a brutal and archaic brand of racial control inextricably linked to post-Civil War vigilantism and the Ku Klux Klan. City councils also used patrollers before the war, and police forces afterward, to impose their version of race relations across the South, making the entire region, not just plantations, an armed camp where slave workers were controlled through terror and brutality.
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The Social Construction of What?by Ian HackingISBN 0674004124 (0-674-00412-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Social Construction of What?'Book summary:Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Is it a person? An object? An idea? A theory? Each entails a different notion of social construction, Ian Hacking reminds us. His book explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentious accounts of reality.
Especially troublesome in this dispute is the status of the natural sciences, and this is where Hacking finds some of his most telling cases, from the conflict between biological and social approaches to mental illness to vying accounts of current research in sedimentary geology. He looks at the issue of child abuse--very much a reality, though the idea of child abuse is a social product. He also cautiously examines the ways in which advanced research on new weapons influences not the content but the form of science. In conclusion, Hacking comments on the "culture wars" in anthropology, in particular a spat between leading ethnographers over Hawaii and Captain Cook. Written with generosity and gentle wit by one of our most distinguished philosophers of science, this wise book brings a much needed measure of clarity to current arguments about the nature of knowledge.
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Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Marketby Walter JohnsonISBN 0674005392 (0-674-00539-2)
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Surprise, Security, and the American Experienceby John Lewis GaddisISBN 0674018362 (0-674-01836-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Surprise, Security, And The American Experience'Book summary:September 11, 2001, distinguished Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis argues, was not the first time a surprise attack shattered American assumptions about national security and reshaped American grand strategy. We've been there before, and have responded each time by dramatically expanding our security responsibilities.
The pattern began in 1814, when the British attacked Washington, burning the White House and the Capitol. This early violation of homeland security gave rise to a strategy of unilateralism and preemption, best articulated by John Quincy Adams, aimed at maintaining strength beyond challenge throughout the North American continent. It remained in place for over a century. Only when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941 did the inadequacies of this strategy become evident: as a consequence, the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt devised a new grand strategy of cooperation with allies on an intercontinental scale to defeat authoritarianism. That strategy defined the American approach throughout World War II and the Cold War.
The terrorist attacks of 9/11, Gaddis writes, made it clear that this strategy was now insufficient to ensure American security. The Bush administration has, therefore, devised a new grand strategy whose foundations lie in the nineteenth-century tradition of unilateralism, preemption, and hegemony, projected this time on a global scale. How successful it will be in the face of twenty-first-century challenges is the question that confronts us. This provocative book, informed by the experiences of the past but focused on the present and the future, is one of the first attempts by a major scholar of grand strategy and international relations to provide an answer.
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This Craft of Verseby Jorge Luis Borges, Calin Andrei MihailescuISBN 0674008200 (0-674-00820-0)
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Through a twist of fate that the author of Labyrinths himself would have relished, these lost lectures given in English at Harvard in 1967-1968 by Jorge Luis Borges return to us now, a recovered tale of a life-long love affair with literature and the English language. Transcribed from tapes only recently discovered, This Craft of Verse captures the cadences, candor, wit, and remarkable erudition of one of the most extraordinary and enduring literary voices of the twentieth century. In its wide-ranging commentary and exquisite insights, the book stands as a deeply personal yet far-reaching introduction to the pleasures of the word, and as a first-hand testimony to the life of literature.
Though his avowed topic is poetry, Borges explores subjects ranging from prose forms (especially the novel), literary history, and translation theory to philosophical aspects of literature in particular and communication in general. Probably the best-read citizen of the globe in his day, he draws on a wealth of examples from literature in modern and medieval English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, and Chinese, speaking with characteristic eloquence on Plato, the Norse kenningar, Byron, Poe, Chesterton, Joyce, and Frost, as well as on translations of Homer, the Bible, and the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
Whether discussing metaphor, epic poetry, the origins of verse, poetic meaning, or his own "poetic creed," Borges gives a performance as entertaining as it is intellectually engaging. A lesson in the love of literature and in the making of a unique literary sensibility, this is a sustained encounter with one of the writers by whom the twentieth century will be long remembered.
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The Union Divided: Party Conflict in the Civil War Northby Mark E. NeelyISBN 0674007425 (0-674-00742-5)
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What the Best College Teachers Doby Ken BainISBN 0674013255 (0-674-01325-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What the Best College Teachers Do'Book summary:What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators. The short answer is--it's not what teachers do, it's what they understand. Lesson plans and lecture notes matter less than the special way teachers comprehend the subject and value human learning. Whether historians or physicists, in El Paso or St. Paul, the best teachers know their subjects inside and out--but they also know how to engage and challenge students and to provoke impassioned responses. Most of all, they believe two things fervently: that teaching matters and that students can learn. In stories both humorous and touching, Bain describes examples of ingenuity and compassion, of students' discoveries of new ideas and the depth of their own potential. What the Best College Teachers Do is a treasure trove of insight and inspiration for first-year teachers and seasoned educators. [via]
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Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Raceby Matthew Frye JacobsonISBN 0674063716 (0-674-06371-6)
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World Civilizations: The Global Experience 1450 to Presentby Peter N. Stearns, Stuart B. Schwartz, Michael AdasISBN 0673994287 (0-673-99428-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'World Civilizations: The Global Experience 1450 to Present'Book summary:Paperback: 608 pages Publisher: Harpercollins College Div; 2nd edition (June 1996) Language: English ISBN-10: 0673994287 ISBN-13: 978-0673994288 [via]
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The World Through a Monocle: The New Yorker at Midcenturyby Mary F. CoreyISBN 0674002083 (0-674-00208-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World Through a Monocle: The New Yorker at Midcentury'Book summary:Today The New Yorker is one of a number of general-interest magazines published for a sophisticated audience, but in the post-World War II era the magazine occupied a truly significant niche of cultural authority. A self-selected community of 250,000 readers, who wanted to know how to look and sound cosmopolitan, found in its pages information about night spots and polo teams. They became conversant with English movies, Italian Communism, French wine, the bombing of the Bikini Atoll, prêt-à-porter, and Caribbean vacations. A well-known critic lamented that "certain groups have come to communicate almost exclusively in references to the [magazine's] sacred writings." The World through a Monocle is a study of these "sacred writings."
Mary Corey mines the magazine's editorial voice, journalism, fiction, advertisements, cartoons, and poetry to unearth the preoccupations, values, and conflicts of its readers, editors, and contributors. She delineates the effort to fuse liberal ideals with aspirations to high social status, finds the magazine's blind spots with regard to women and racial and ethnic stereotyping, and explores its abiding concern with elite consumption coupled with a contempt for mass production and popular advertising. Balancing the consumption of goods with a social conscience which prized goodness, the magazine managed to provide readers with what seemed like a coherent and comprehensive value system in an incoherent world.
Viewing the world through a monocle, those who created The New Yorker and those who believed in it cultivated a uniquely powerful cultural institution serving an influential segment of the population. Corey's work illuminates this extraordinary enterprise in our social history.
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Writing and Reading Across the Curriculumby Leonard J. Rosen, BehrensISBN 0673522725 (0-673-52272-5)
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Writing and Reading Across the Curriculumby Rosen, J. LeonardISBN 0673524752 (0-673-52475-2)
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Writing Research Papers: A Complete Guideby James D. LesterISBN 067399449X (0-673-99449-X)
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Writing Research Papers: A Complete Guide, Tabbedby LesterISBN 0673994503 (0-673-99450-3)
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The X in Sex: How the X Chromosome Controls Our Livesby David BainbridgeISBN 0674016211 (0-674-01621-1)
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