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Literary Criticism

Culture Studies

Catastrophizing Materialism and the Making of Disaster

Passannante Gerard

ISBN: HB: 9780226612218, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
240 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 5 colour plates, 7 halftones

When we catastrophize, we think the worst. We make too much of too little, or something of nothing. Yet what looks simply like a bad habit, Gerard Passannante argues, was also a spur to some of the daring conceptual innovations and feats of imaginat...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

No Fixed Abode Ethnofiction

Auge Marc

ISBN: PB: 9780857426345, Seagull Books, March 2019
80 pp., 25x15 cm

In recent years, social workers have raised a new concern about the appearance of a new category among the working poor. Even employed, there are people so overburdened by the cost of living and so under compensated that they cannot afford a place to...

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Culture Studies

Political Science

Icons of Dissent The Global Resonance of Che, Marley, Tupac and Bin Laden

Prestholdt Jeremy

ISBN: HB: 9781849046657, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
248 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The global icon is an omnipresent but poorly understood element of mass culture. This book asks why audiences around the world have embraced a small number of iconic figures and what this tells us about cross-border, trans-cult...

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Nature

Culture Studies

Seeing Trees A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin

Dumpelmann Sonja

ISBN: HB: 9780300225785, Yale University Press, February 2019
328 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 colour illus., 120 black&white illus.

Today, cities around the globe are planting street trees to mitigate the effects of climate change. However, as landscape historian Sonja Dumpelmann explains, this is not a new phenomenon. In her eye-opening work, Dumpelmann shows how New York City a...

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Contemporary Art

Culture Studies

Ekstase – Ecstasy In Art, Music and Dance

Groos Ulrike, Muller Markus, Vieth Anne, Waldmuller Martin, Zimmer Nina

ISBN: HB: 9783791358222, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
288 pp., 28.5x22 cm, 210 colour illus.

Accompanying an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart and Zentrum Paul Klee, this book illuminates the various spiritual, political, psychological, social, sexual, and aesthetic implications of euphoric and intoxicated states between asceticism and...

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Culture Studies

Asia

Ganges The Many Pasts of an Indian River

Sen Sudipta

ISBN: HB: 9780300119169, Yale University Press, February 2019
456 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 66 black&white illus.

Originating in the Himalayas and flowing into the Bay of Bengal, the Ganges is India's most important and sacred river. In this unprecedented work, historian Sudipta Sen tells the story of the Ganges, from the communities that arose on its banks to t...

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Literary Criticism

Culture Studies

Social Life of Books Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

Williams Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9780300240252, ISBN: HB: 9780300208290, Yale University Press, January 2019
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 57 black&white illus.

A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century. Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainme...

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Culture Studies

Equestrian Cultures Horses, Human Society, and the Discourse of Modernity

Guest Kristen, Mattfeld Monica

ISBN: PB: 9780226589510, ISBN: HB: 9780226583044, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 1 table

As much as dogs, cats, or any domestic animal, horses exemplify the vast range of human-animal interactions. Horses have long been deployed to help with a variety of human activities – from racing and riding to police work, farming, warfare, and ther...

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