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Google Preview PUB DATE: April 2018 ISBN: 9781941332399 144 pages FORMAT: Paperback LIST PRICE: $18.00£13.99 ADD TO CART Unhoused
The Empire Remains Shop
Brooklyn Tides
Comparison

  • Columbia Books on Architecture and the City: Unhoused: Adorno and the Problem of Dwelling, by Matt Waggoner

  • Columbia Books on Architecture and the City: The Empire Remains Shop

    Cooking Sections (Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe)

  • From Transcript Press: Brooklyn Tides
    The Fall and Rise of a Global Borough
    Benjamin Shepard and Mark Noonan

  • From Barbara Budrich Publishers: Comparison: A Methodological Introduction for the Social Sciences, by Leonardo Morlino

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Book Giveaway! China’s War on Smuggling (Jul 16, 2018)
This week, our featured book is China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965, by Philip Thai! Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our Twitter feed and our Facebook page. Loading…
New Books! Chaos in the Liberal Order, Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction, Forging the Golden Urn and More (Jul 11, 2018)
Below is our weekly list of new releases! Chaos in the Liberal Order The Trump Presidency and International Politics in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Robert Jervis, Francis J. Gavin, Joshua Rovner, and Diane Labrosse Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World George R. McGhee Jr. Critical Theory at a Crossroads
The Best Thing in the World (Jul 7, 2018)
Browning was born in England in 1806, the oldest of 12, and grew up in a Turkish-style mansion. She secretly married Robert Browning, also a poet, amidst the melodrama of paternal opposition and romantic art. She published her first book when she was barely 20. She became the most celebrated female poet of her time.
Novel Sounds: A Playlist (Jul 6, 2018)
“Every chapter of Novel Sounds works at a high and steady pitch of intelligence and cogency. Dore’s intricate connections, juxtapositions, and analyses of multimedia interanimation are never less than absorbing and are often eye-opening both at the level of textual forms and in the larger terms of cultural understanding in which they were embedded.” ~ Eric Lott,
Florence Dore Moderator: Rock and Literature II (Jul 5, 2018)
“In Florence Dore’s electrifying, genre-busting tour de force, the mid-twentieth-century inventors of literary formalism, tracing poetic tradition to the ballad form, inadvertently open literature’s floodgates to encompass the bold ‘novel sounds’ of rock ‘n’ roll. Southern fiction, no less than American culture, would never be the same.” ~ Jennifer Fleissner, Indiana University-Bloomington This week, our