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Reading Capital's Materialist Dialectic: Marx, Spinoza, and the Althusserians - Hardcover

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by Nick Nesbitt (Author)While the explicit Althusserian engagement with Marx's Capital remained largely limited to Reading Capital, after 1968, Nick Nesbitt argues, this theoretical intervention remained insistent, adopting the form of a general theory of materialist dialectic. The book thus analyzes the Althusserianist theory of a materialist dialectic across diverse sites including Althusser's unpublished archive, Macherey's exposition of Spinoza's Ethics, and Badiou's Logics of Worlds, whi...

Adult Education and Difference - Paperback

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by Bonnie Slade (Volume Editor), Peter Mayo (Volume Editor), Thi Bogossian (Volume Editor)The world ecological system is marked by difference throughout. There is social difference with different identities, shifting and transmuting, being forged, and extra-human differences. All these have implications for intra human and human/non-human earth relations. This aspect is not always recognised and valorised. Education, though not an independent variable, still can be mobilised, together with ot...

Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World - Paperback

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by Paul Mirecki (Editor), Marvin Meyer (Editor)This volume contains a series of provocative essays that explore expressions of magic and ritual power in the ancient world. The essays are authored by leading scholars in the fields of Egyptology, ancient Near Eastern studies, the Hebrew Bible, Judaica, classical Greek and Roman studies, early Christianity and patristics, and Coptic and Islamic Egypt.The strength of the present volume lies in the breadth of scholarly approaches represented. The ...

Shusterman's Somaesthetics: From Hip Hop Philosophy to Politics and Performance Art - Paperback

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by Jerold J. Abrams (Volume Editor)This edited collection provides an in-depth and wide-ranging exploration of pragmatist philosopher Richard Shusterman's distinctive project of "somaesthetics," devoted not only to better understanding bodily experience but also to greater mastery of somatic perception, performance, and presentation. Against contemporary trends that focus narrowly on conceptual and computational thinking, Shusterman returns philosophy to what is most fundamental--the sentient...

The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth - Paperback

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by Jermaine Fowler (Author)NOW IN PAPERBACK WITH BONUS MATERIAL, this NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller is a sweeping survey of Black history shows how Black humanity has been erased and how its recovery can save the humanity of us all. You're also getting an exclusive bonus chapter: "The Biggest Lies in American History." "An innovative reading of Black history, gracefully joining it to the larger history of all humankind." -- Kirkus Starred Review Named by Essence Magazine as one of "31 Books You M...

Arabic-English Dictionary of Qurʾanic Usage - Paperback

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by Elsaid Badawi (Author), Muhammed Abdel Haleem (Author)The Qurʾan is the living source of all Islamic teaching, and is of singular importance to those interested in Islam and the study of religions. Despite this, there exists a long-felt lack of research tools for English first-language speakers who wish to access the Qurʾan in the original Arabic.The Dictionary of Qurʾanic Usage is the first comprehensive, fully-researched and contextualised Arabic-English dictionary of Qurʾanic usage, com...

Writing Is Revision: Compositions from the Feminist Fringe - Paperback

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by Cate McGowan (Author)Through her use of the scholarly personal narrative and braided essay form, McGowan weaves strands of rhetoric with creative writing, navigating complex themes with academic rigor and emotional introspection. Her blend of equal parts humor, gravitas, and scholarship invites readers to explore the complexities of being a woman in a male-dominated world while looking at how writers might use coping mechanisms and transgressive workarounds, from code-switching to storytel...

Of Emoji and Semioliteracy: Reading, Writing, and Texting in the Literacy Instruction Classroom - Paperback

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by Omonpee W. Petcoff (Author)In service to their unique demographic of learners, developmental reading and writing instructors must steadfastly teach basic literacy skills to a diverse student population with varying degrees of literacy proficiency. Even more dauntingly, educators are tasked with procuring andragogically-and-pedagogically appropriate teaching tools - those that meet the needs of the individual student while being accessible and relatable to this adult learner demographic. Of...

Marxian Totality: Inverting Hegel to Expound Worldly Matters - Hardcover

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by Kaveh Boveiri (Author)The present volume represents the first book-length monograph on the Marxian concept of totality as seen from a philosophical and sociopolitical perspective. Drawing on a large number of classical and contemporary works, Boveiri elucidates the distinctive features of Marxian totality with a particular focus on its methodology. The work has four fundamental elements, or moments. First, it develops arguments against undialectical conceptions of totality. Then it present...

Rethinking Ageism: Age and Ageing in an Ageist World - Paperback

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by Augie Fleras (Author)Older adults may be the world's fastest growing demographic. Yet they remain vulnerable to biases and barriers that would be intolerable if directed at others. Such an indictment puts the onus on deconstructing the idea of ageism in terms of what it means ("a riddle"), how it works ("a mystery"), why it persists ("an enigma"), and what can be done about it ("a puzzle"). Reference to ageism must go beyond the idea of a "bug" in the system. Rather, ageism is the system, ...

Machiavelliana: The Living Machiavelli in Modern Mythologies - Paperback

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by Michael Jackson (Author), Damian Grace (Author)In Machiavelliana Michael Jackson and Damian Grace offer a comprehensive study of the uses and abuses of Niccolò Machiavelli's name in society generally and in academic fields distant from his intellectual origins. It assesses the appropriation of Machiavelli in didactic works in management, social psychology, and primatology, scholarly texts in leaderships studies, as well as novels, plays, commercial enterprises, television dramas, operas, r...

Where Shrimp Eat Better Than People: Globalized Fisheries, Nutritional Unequal Exchange and Asian Hunger - Paperback

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by Wilma Dunaway (Author), Maria Cecilia Macabuac (Author)East, South and Southeast Asia are home to two-thirds of the world's hungry people, but they produce more than three-quarters of the world's fish and nearly half of other foods. Through integration into the world food system, these Asian fisheries export their most nutritious foods and import less healthy substitutes. Worldwide, their exports sell cheap because women, the hungriest Asians, provide unpaid subsidies to production process...

As the Oracles of God: Policing the Word in Colonial Quakerism - Paperback

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by S. Spencer Wells (Author)"As the Oracles of God" examines how Quakers in colonial America sought to control both the written and spoken word in their religious communities. It looks at the ways in which American Friends set up committees to censor texts deemed heterodox, as well as the ways Quakers sought to moderate the words of believers through encouraging self-censorship as a way to access personal revelation, while also paying particular attention to the experiences of those who ran a...

The Information Animal: Humans, Technology and the Competition for Reality

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Report copyright infringementby Alicia Wanless (Author)Depending on the news you read, new tools like AI will either save or destroy us. But our response to emerging technology's 'unprecedented' threats actually follows a pattern as old as civilisation. From ancient Athens to COVID-19, social media to spam, Alicia Wanless shows how humans have always consumed information, whether accurate or not. First a new technology changes how information is shared, broadening its availability and acceler...

Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story - Paperback

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by Timothy B. Tyson (Author)The "riveting"* true story of the fiery summer of 1970, which would forever transform the town of Oxford, North Carolina--a classic portrait of the fight for civil rights in the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird *Chicago Tribune On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a twenty-three-year-old black veteran, walked into a crossroads store owned by Robert Teel and came out running. Teel and two of his sons chased and beat Marrow, then killed him in public as he pleaded for hi...

Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail - Hardcover

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by Michael L. Walker (Author)An intimate, first-hand account of the emotional and physical experience of doing time in jail and the strategies for enduring it. Jails are the principal people-processing machines of the criminal justice system. Mostly they hold persons awaiting trial who cannot afford or have been denied bail. Although jail sentences max out at a year, some spend years awaiting trial in jail-especially in counties where courts are jammed with cases. City and county jails, deten...

Day of the Dead: A Celebration of Life - Hardcover

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by Polo Orozco (Author), Mirelle Ortega (Illustrator)Honor and remember loved ones on the Day of the Dead with this beautifully illustrated Little Golden Book about the holiday. Day of the Dead, or Día de Muertos in Spanish, is a happy celebration. The Mexican holiday is a time to welcome back loved ones who are no longer with us. This is done with offerings of favorite foods, brightly colored marigolds, sugar skulls, and more. This Little Golden Book is a great read-aloud for families that c...

Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View

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Report copyright infringementby Edward McPherson (Author)"A charming, idiosyncratic meditation on the human urge to see further, and more, in this cultural history of the 'aerial view' . . . McPherson makes an elliptical and enchanting case for reinserting wherever possible the ground-level, human perspective . . . Redolent with insights into the ethical quandary of history-making, as well as the author's own sense of awe at the full sweep of the human story, this is a wonder."--Publishers We...

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Report copyright infringementby Jude Doyle (Author)In this sharp manifesto, veteran author and activist, Jude Doyle, reunites feminist and trans politics through a common belief: that all people deserve to have the final say about who they are... When Jude Doyle began his transition in the summer of 2020, he had a very public career as a feminist--winning awards from women's organizations, writing for women's magazines, publishing books on "women's issues." Then, after a decade in the movemen...

The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery

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Report copyright infringementby Siddharth Kara (Author)From Pulitzer finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Cobalt Red: A notorious slave ship incident that led to the abolition of slavery in the UK and sparked the US abolitionist movementIn late October 1780, a slave ship set sail from the Netherlands, bound for Africa's Windward and Gold Coasts, where it would take on its human cargo. The Zorg (a Dutch word meaning "care") was one of thousands of such ships, but the harrowing eve...

Hit Girls: Britney, Taylor, Beyoncé, and the Women Who Built Pop's Shiniest Decade

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Report copyright infringementby Nora Princiotti (Author)An entertaining and deeply nostalgic dive into how female pop stars broke through the music industry in the 2000s and altered the cultural landscape forever, from the Ringer writer and Every Single Album podcast cohost "Hit Girls bridges our butterfly-clipped, bedazzled past with today's music world, revealing how the pop songs we belted in our bedrooms shaped everything we're streaming now."--Kate Kennedy, New York Times bestselling aut...

You Are More Than Your Body: 30+ Evidence-Based Strategies for Living Well with Chronic Illness--By a Clinical Therapist Living with Cerebral Palsy

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Caspari (Author)A gentle, supportive guide to developing coping skills and improving quality of life for disabled and chronically ill people Managing the stresses of everyday life can be exhausting and overwhelming. Dr. Jennifer Caspari knows this struggle well--both through her work as a clinical psychologist and her lived experience as a disabled woman with cerebral palsy. You Are More Than Your Body weaves together clinical expertise, personal stori...

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Report copyright infringementby Amanda Montell (Author)"One of those life-changing reads that makes you see--or, in this case, hear--the whole world differently." --Megan Angelo, author of Followers"At times chilling, often funny, and always perceptive and cogent, Cultish is a bracing reminder that the scariest thing about cults is that you don't realize you're in one till it's too late."--Refinery29.comThe New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Magical Overthinking and Wordslut anal...

Native America: The Story of the First Peoples

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Report copyright infringementby Kenneth L. Feder (Author)An epic deep history of the Indigenous peoples of North America, covering more than 20,000 years of astonishing diversity, adaptation, resilience, and continuity Native America presents an infinitely surprising and fascinating deep history of the continent's Indigenous peoples. Kenneth Feder, a leading expert on Native American history and archaeology, draws on archaeological, historical, and cultural evidence to tell the ongoing story,...

Here Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and an American Awakening

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Report copyright infringementby Jim Newton (Author)A kaleidoscopic history of the Grateful Dead that explores the American counterculture through the life of iconoclastic frontman Jerry Garcia, and his merry band "By writing this book, Jim Newton informs the rest of the world what Deadheads have known for years: that Jerry Garcia was more than a world-class musician, he was an American icon."--Trixie Garcia In 1965, in Palo Alto, Jerry Garcia opened a dictionary to a fable in which an appreci...

Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies

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Report copyright infringementby Bruce Handy (Author)From a longtime Vanity Fair writer and editor, a delightfully entertaining, intelligent, and illuminating history and tribute to teen movies--from Rebel Without a Cause to Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and on to John Hughes, Mean Girls, The Hunger Games, and more. What influence did Francis Ford Coppola have on George Lucas's American Graffiti? And Lucas on John Singleton's Boyz n the Hood? How does teenage sexuality in Fast Times at Ridgem...

The Perfect Tuba: Forging Fulfillment from the Bass Horn, Band, and Hard Work

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Report copyright infringementby Sam Quinones (Author)From National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Sam Quinones, the story of a demanding instrument, the determined people who play it, and the hope they offer a fractured nation. The tuba's sound is mighty, emerging, it seems, from deep in the human body. Very little music has, up until recently, been written to play to its strengths. The best the tuba seems to promise is a seat at the back of the band. No stadium shows, no Internet...

The Knowing: How the Oppression of Indigenous Peoples Continues to Echo Today

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Report copyright infringementby Tanya Talaga (Author)***Winner of the Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book!******Shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize!***"The Knowing is everything we've come to expect from a Tanya Talaga book - meticulous research, impassioned advocacy, searing prose."--Duncan McCue, author of Decolonizing Journalism: A Guide to Reporting in Indigenous CommunitiesFrom award-winning and bestselling Anishinaabe author Tanya Talaga comes a riveting explorat...

The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Bates (Author)Misogyny is being hardwired into our future. Can we stop it?We like to believe we're moving closer to equality, riding the wave of technological progress into a brighter, fairer future. But beneath the glossy surface of innovation lies a chilling truth: new technologies are not just failing to solve age-old inequalities--they're deepening them.In The New Age of Sexism, acclaimed author and activist Laura Bates exposes how misogyny is being c...

Such Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Deville (Author)The definitive history of twenty-first-century indie rock--from Iron & Wine and Death Cab for Cutie to Phoebe Bridgers and St. Vincent--and how the genre shifted the musical landscape and shaped a generation Maybe you caught a few exhilarating seconds of "Teen Age Riot" on a nearby college radio station while scanning the FM dial in your parents' car. Maybe your friend invited you to a shabby local rock club and you ended up having a r...

Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America

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Report copyright infringementby Scott Ellsworth (Author)From the author of The Ground Breaking, longlisted for the National Book Award, comes a riveting saga of the last year of the Civil War--and a revealing new account of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln Told with a page-turning pace, New York Times bestselling author and historian Scott Ellsworth has written the most compelling new book about the Civil War in years. Focusing on the last, desperate months of the war, when the outcome ...

The Anthropology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

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Report copyright infringementby DK (Author)Explore and understand the key ideas and movements in anthropology--the study of human societies and cultures and how they work. What does it mean to be human? Why do we have rituals? How do family structures differ around the world, and why? The Anthropology Book answers questions like these and many, many more. Applying the Big Ideas series' combination of authoritative, accessible text and bold graphics, The Anthropology Book introduces key conc...