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The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East
"A trenchant account showing how the Middle East has quite transformed the political categories of Left and Right." — Faisal Devji
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The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
Read Francine Prose's review in the New York Times Book Review.
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Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan
"The history is fascinating, and the literary life Keene has doggedly carved out of it, remarkable." — Andrew Monahan, TIME, Asia edition
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Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity
"[Casetti's] prose points into cinema's deepest recesses like a detective's sharp beam, yet radiates its majestic accomplishments like the aurora borealis" — Dudley Andrew, Yale University
Enchantment: The Seductress in Opera
"Starobinski writes without a drop of jargon, in clear, poetically resonant prose that brings highly complex subjects alive both intellectually and aesthetically." — Suzanne C. Nash, Princeton University
"An important event in the history of ... continental aesthetics." —Robert Bernasconi, author of How to Read Sartre
Keeping Out the Other: A Critical Introduction to Immigration Enforcement Today
"This is one of the most critical examinations of the deep flaws in our laws and enforcement practices concerning the foreigner." — Saskia Sassen
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Humanity's Footprint: Momentum, Impact, and Our Global Environment
"Dodds tackles issues with refreshing and impressive courage." — David Orr, Oberlin College
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The Politics of Inequality: A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America
"[A] superb intellectual history [and] an important intervention into contemporary debates." — Stanley Aronowitz
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