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Title Author Year Publication type
Untimely Sacrifices Work and Death in Finland Daena Aki Funahashi 2023 Book
Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex Juana María Rodríguez 2023 Book
To Defend this Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Geography of Race in Nicaragua Courtney Desiree Morris 2023 Book
Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life Dacher Keltner 2023 Book
Embodying Peripheries Edited By: Giuseppina Forte; Edited By: Kuan Hwa 2022 Book

How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea

2022

Today, a world without “gender” is hard to imagine. Gender is at the center of contentious political and social debates, shapes policy decisions, and informs our everyday lives. Its formulation, however, is lesser known: Gender was first used in clinical practice. This book tells the story...Read more about How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea

Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History

2022

Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History tells a new story about the cultural imagination of the West wherein cheerfulness — a momentary uptick in emotional energy, a temporary lightening of spirit — functions as a crucial theme in literary, philosophical, and artistic creations...Read more about Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History

Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley

2022

Silicon Valley is known for its lavish perks, intense work culture, and spiritual gurus. Work Pray Code explores how tech companies are bringing religion into the workplace in ways that are replacing traditional places of worship, blurring the line between work and religion and...Read more about Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley

Well Built Mycenae, Fascicule 14: Tsountas House Area

2022

Well Built Mycenae, Fascicule 14: Tsountas House Area presents the results of the excavations in this area at Mycenae conducted under the direction of Wace (1950) and Taylour (1959–60) in collaboration with Papademetriou and later Mylonas. Located in the ‘Cult Centre’, the...Read more about Well Built Mycenae, Fascicule 14: Tsountas House Area

In the Between: 21st Century Short Stories

2022

Collected here are seventeen prose stories and two comics created by established and rising stars in American fiction and graphic narrative, all published since the year 2000—masterful works that vary greatly in style and content but spring from a common source: the desire to forge a...Read more about In the Between: 21st Century Short Stories

Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America

2022

This book proposes the existence of a recognizably distinct Holocaust consciousness in Latin America since the 1970s. Community leaders, intellectuals, writers, and

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Troublemaker

2022

12-year-old Jordan feels like he can't live up to the example his older sister set, or his parent's expectations. When he returns home from school one day hoping to hide his suspension, Los Angeles has reached a turning point. In the wake of the acquittal of the police officers filmed beating...Read more about Troublemaker

Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the Senses

2022

From medieval contemplation to the early modern cosmopoetic imagination, to the invention of aesthetic experience, to nineteenth-century decadent literature, and to early-twentieth century essayistic forms of writing and film, Niklaus Largier shows that mystical practices have been reinvented...Read more about Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the Senses

My Little Book of Exiles

2022

The poems of My Little Book of Exiles sift through layers of diaspora and return, wrestling with the twin experiences of exile and separation. The diasporas of the collection take place in history, family, and the privacy of a mind as it navigates its daily work. In a set of "Labor Poems...Read more about My Little Book of Exiles

Bigger Than Life: The Close-Up and Scale in the Cinema

2022

In Bigger Than Life Mary Ann Doane examines how the scalar operations of cinema, especially those of the close-up, disturb and reconfigure the spectator's sense of place, space, and orientation. Doane traces the history of scalar transformations from early cinema to the...Read more about Bigger Than Life: The Close-Up and Scale in the Cinema