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New Book Tuesday! Becoming Guanyin and more! (Feb 18, 2020)
Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Premodern East Asia: New Horizons series Becoming Guanyin Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China Yuhang Li Yuhang Li examines how lay Buddhist women in late imperial...
Book Giveaway! Uneven Innovation: The Work of Smart Cities, by Jennifer Clark (Feb 18, 2020)
“Written by one of the world’s foremost experts, Uneven Innovation is a must-have book for everyone interested in the potential and the pitfalls of the smart cities narrative. It provides both a critical review of the main debates surrounding smart...
Book Giveaway! Film Studies (Feb 17, 2020)
The award season may have come to an end, but we are still mulling over the best films and their directors. Our Wallflower imprint and its Directors’ Cut series highlights the production and reception of the cinema’s most significant contemporary works and filmmakers....
Book Excerpt! The Outside Thing, By Hannah Roche (introduction) (Feb 14, 2020)
“This theoretically sophisticated reading of three lesbian writers—Stein, Hall, and Barnes—is at once playful and serious. Roche’s insistence on the queerness of desire, romance, and love between women takes feminist modernist studies in an exciting new direction.” ~Laura Doan, author...
Alfred Wallace’s Problem: Can the Theory of Evolution Explain Language? By Herbert S. Terrace (Feb 14, 2020)
“With characteristic clarity, [Terrace] gives a convincing account of language evolution in Darwinian terms, without appeal to miracles. This is an important new approach to an old and vexed problem.​” ~Michael Corballis, author of The Truth About Language: What It...

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European Social Work – A Compendium
Beckett, Lacan and the Gaze
Ways of Knowing Cities
A Medical History of Hong Kong
The Economics of Oil and Gas
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