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Titlesort descending Author Year Publication type
Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History Timothy Hampton 2022 Book
Closures: Heterosexuality and the American Sitcom Grace Lavery 2024 Book
Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II Latin America Rebecca Herman 2022 Book
Culturally Responsive Strategies for Reforming STEM Higher Education Kelly M. Mack; Kate Winter; Melissa Soto 2019 Book
Departures: An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies Yen Le Espiritu, Lan Duong, Ma Vang, Victor Bascara, Khatharya Um, Lila Sharif, Nigel Hatton 2022 Book

Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right

2024

In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the "pride paradox" that has given the right's appeals such resonance....Read more about Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right

Take a Breath, You're Getting Excited

2024

Take a Breath catapults you right into the frenzy spiral of Yakir Ben-Moshe's dating life. Against the backdrop of violence, war, and trauma that has always permeated Israeli society and shaped the personal as well as the political discourse, the round dance of lovers entering...Read more about Take a Breath, You're Getting Excited

Racial Domination

2024

Race is arguably the single most troublesome and volatile concept of the social sciences in the early 21st century. It is invoked to explain all manner of historical phenomena and current issues, from slavery to police brutality to acute poverty, and it is also used as a term of civic...Read more about Racial Domination

Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler

2024

Considering Butler's “tragic trilogy”-a set of interventions on Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Bacchae, and Aeschylus's Eumenides-this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses and interprets Greek tragedy, but also how tragedy shapes Butler's thinking, even when their gaze is...Read more about Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler

Stephanie Syjuco: The Unruly Archive

2024

Stephanie Syjuco: The Unruly Archive is the artist’s first monograph, weaving together her research-based practice with a substantial array of visual source material. Bound in a unique format with different types of paper, the pages are cut and layered to simulate...Read more about Stephanie Syjuco: The Unruly Archive

The Ordinal Society

2024

A sweeping critique of how digital capitalism is reformatting our world.

We now live in an “ordinal society.” Nearly every aspect of our lives is measured, ranked, and processed into discrete, standardized units of digital information. Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy...Read more about The Ordinal Society

An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence: Thinking with Machines from Descartes to the Digital Age

2024

A new history of human intelligence that argues that humans know themselves by knowing their machines.

We imagine that we are both in control of and controlled by our bodies—autonomous and yet automatic. This entanglement, according to David W. Bates, emerged in the...Read more about An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence: Thinking with Machines from Descartes to the Digital Age

Who’s Afraid of Gender?

2024

From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the world.

Judith Butler, the groundbreaking thinker whose iconic book Gender Trouble redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts

...Read more about Who’s Afraid of Gender?

Fundamentals of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

2024

An exciting introduction to the scientific interface between biological studies of the brain and behavioural studies of human development. The authors trace the field from its roots in developmental psychology and neuroscience, and highlight some of the most persuasive research findings...Read more about Fundamentals of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Closures: Heterosexuality and the American Sitcom

2024

From The Mary Tyler Moore Show to Arrested Development to BoJack Horseman, the American sitcom revolves around crises that must be resolved by episode’s end, with a new crisis to come next week. In Closures, Grace Lavery reconsiders the...Read more about Closures: Heterosexuality and the American Sitcom