The Worlding Project
Doing Cultural Studies in the Era of Globalization
Edited by Christopher Leigh Connery and Rob Wilson
Price: $16.00
North Atlantic Books
Globalization discourse now presumes that the “world space” is entirely at the mercy of market norms and forms promulgated by reactionary U.S. policies. An academic but accessible set of studies, this wide range of essays by noted scholars challenges this paradigm with diverse and strong arguments. Taking on topics that range...
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Bodies in the Making
Transgressions and Transformations
Edited by Nancy N. Chen and Helene Moglen
Price: $12.00
North Atlantic Books
In the twenty-first century, the body is experienced less as a fixed entity than it is as a protean product and a project of technological, medical and artistic invention. The essays in Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations address the proliferation of such transformative practices as tattooing, piercing, self-cutting, cosmetic...
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Hurricane Katrina
Response and Responsibilities
Edited by John Brown Childs
Price: $10.00
North Atlantic Books
On August 29, 2005, the most destructive and costly natural disaster in the history of the United States struck the Gulf Coast, displacing over a million residents. Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath exposed deep problems in the social and political landscape of the United States. A clear divide was visible between...
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In Memoriam
Norman O. Brown
Edited by Jerome Neu
Price: $10.00
North Atlantic Books
Norman O. Brown was a scholar, poet and revolutionary who made a lasting impression on the sixties generation. His distinctive fusion of Marxism, psychoanalysis and classical literature inspired students across the United States and in Europe to participate in the political upheaval of that time. His books, including Love’s Body and...
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shock and awe
war on words
Edited by Bregje van Eekelen, Jennifer Gonzalez, Bettina Stotzer and Anna Tsing
Price: $10.00
North Atlantic Books
If you don’t know what to say about global war, you need a dictionary. Shock and Awe: War on Words is just that: a keywords book that participates in a battle over the imagination, acknowledging the force of words, concepts, and images in framing our everyday lives. Located in the borderlands...
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Berkeley High School Slang Dictionary
Edited by Rick Ayers
Price: $9.95
North Atlantic Books
"Cheese" isn't only a dairy product, it's also a smile; when you "schmab," you're burning rubber; and when you're "ghost," you're gone. These are just a couple of the coined phrases clever enough to earn their creators - students in Berkeley High's Communication Arts and Sciences (CAS) program - spots on...
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Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields
Metaphors That Shape Embryos
Written by Donna Jeanne Haraway, Foreword by Scott Gilbert
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books
Acclaimed theorist and social scientist Donna Jeanne Haraway uses the work of pioneering developmental biologists Ross G. Harrison, Joseph Needham, and Paul Weiss as a springboard for a discussion about a shift in developmental biology from a vitalism-mechanism framework to organicism. The book deftly interweaves Thomas Kuhn's concept of paradigm change...
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